Through her emotional justice framework, Esther Armah offers language for Black thriving across the diaspora. by Aaron Foley

Esther Armah sought a change of scenery for her own emotional well-being, so she relocated to Accra, Ghana, some years back, and now tends oranges in her backyard. It wouldn’t make sense, she says, for her to preach emotional justice — a term she coined in her work centered around racial healing — and not put it into practice.

Now, through her writing, advocacy, and the Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, she is building a global movement rooted in honesty, storytelling, healing, and rejecting respectability politics.

The Roots of Emotional Justice

Indeed, “rejection” is a concept Armah embraces. She says that in the work of emotional justice, one

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