28 Days of Blackness

Led by the 2025-2026 Jegnaship Cohort and powered by community partners from across the country, 28 Days of Blackness is an opportunity to connect, reflect, and celebrate the enduring impact of Black voices in shaping our nation.

This year's theme, "Seeds of Soul: Sown in Strength and Still RISING," invites you to engage in virtual presentations showcasing his story/her story, music, hip-hop, spoken word, open mic, and much more. Our program also features workshops and presentations highlighting the dynamic resilience and resistance of people of African ancestry.

Spend February with CIIS' Black Psychology Jengaship program and Division of Community Engagement and Belonging in this incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and celebrate!

Week 1

Opening Ceremony

Tuesday, February 3
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

Gather with us as we open 28 Days of Blackness, Seeds of Soul: Sown in Strength and Still RISING. Join our virtual ceremony on Zoom to kick off a month-long celebration, connection, and collective uplift.

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Sustainable Rootology

Thursday, February 5
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

This 90-minute conversation with Kayte Ingram reflects on our work thus far, grounded in lived experience, global travel, and community-centered action. Kayte will share insights from our international engagements and conferences, examine our current projects focused on women, girls, interfaith unity, language reclamation, and safety, and reflect on lessons learned through on-the-ground organizing.

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Week 2

Triangular Living Cinema: Filmaker, Audience, Community & Critic, Distributors, Educators, Curator

Tuesday, February 10
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

Triangular Living Cinema is a community-rooted workshop led by Alile Sharon Larkin, grounded in the African principle of Ubuntu—I am because we are. In the spirit of African History Month, this gathering invites African filmmakers, artists, educators, curators, and community members to come together and reflect on how we tell our stories, who controls them, and how they live within our communities.

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The Demystification of Sexual Addiction

Wednesday, February 11
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

Sexual addiction is often misunderstood and stigmatized. However, with knowledge comes hope and healing. This educational event offers a safe and respectful space to learn about sexual addiction, its physical, mental, and spiritual effects, and the resources available for recovery.

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Healing, Being, & the Omiyomi Frequency

Thursday, February 12
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

Dr. Daniel Lattimore shares insights, exercises, and lessons that have helped himself, his family, and his spirit.

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Week 3

Nine Ships: A Visual Crossed and Entangled History of Enslaved Africans Across Two Middle Passages

Tuesday, February 17
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

In 1860, three illegal enslaving ships from New York, en route from West Africa to Cuba, were intercepted and rerouted to Key West. There, 1,432 Africans were confined for 85 days in barracoons before being forcibly deported to Liberia, a place they had no ancestral ties to, constituting a second Middle Passage. Nearly one-third died on the voyage and at least 295 died in Key West. Who, and how many, perished during the first crossing remains unknown.

This lecture presents artworks and and research exploring these histories, and the lives affected by them. Using relief printing techniques, the work investigates cycles of displacement, trauma, and historical absence. By connecting past events to contemporary experiences of forced migration and deportation, it creates space for remembrance, reflection, and empathy.

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Reflecting, Celebrating and Imagining: A Roundtable Discussion With Emerging Black Clinicians Project Graduate Fellows

Wednesday, February 18
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

As the Emerging Black Clinician Project completes its 5th and final year at CIIS, graduate fellows will reflect on their experience and how it has shaped them personally and professionally. With audience engagement, we will dream into future opportunities for healing and nourishing Black communities.

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A Socio-Historical Perspective of the Educational Experiences of African Americans

Thursday, February 19
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

Drawing on his graduate research—which found increased academic performance among Black American males when Black American history was incorporated into public school curricula—Anthony Cherry connects history, identity, and learning.

Grounded in both scholarship and school leadership practice, he explores how socio-historical awareness can inform equitable educational strategies in today’s public schools.

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Black Art Movements and Transformation

Friday, February 20
12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

Join Dr. Kathy Littles, Provost of CIIS, for a conversation with Rachel and Shirley on Black Art Movements, their role in visualizing truth, spirituality, beauty, and consciousness, and the transformational power of Black art. 

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Week 4

Fawohodie Guided Imagery Method™: Accessing Ancestral Wisdom for Psycho-Spiritual Well-Being

Tuesday, February 24
2:00pm - 4:00pm PT

This experiential workshop introduces participants to the Fawohodie Guided Transformative Imagery Method™, an Afrikan-centered, psycho-spiritual practice rooted in ancestral consciousness, collective memory, and embodied knowing. Drawing from Black/African-centered psychology, Sankofa Praxis, and liberation psychology, participants are guided beyond visualization as willful imagination into imagery as remembrance—a sacred process of reconnecting with ancestors, lineage, spirit, and collective purpose.

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Zydeco and Black Folk Music

Thursday, February 26
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

Drawing from her upbringing in a musical family, her leadership in artist management, and her work documenting zydeco culture through Keeping It Zydeco Podcast, Dr. Raven Carmouche explores zydeco as a living expression of Black folk music. The presentation highlights zydeco’s intergenerational transmission, community grounding, and role in preserving Black musical memory. This talk centers lived experience, cultural stewardship, and the ongoing vitality of zydeco within Black folk traditions.

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Closing Ceremony Featuring Musical Artist, Lewis Raye

Friday, February 27
4:30pm - 6:00pm PT

Lewis Raye, a multi-talented singer-songwriter and producer, studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, and Audio Production at the Art Institute of Atlanta. He plays piano, guitar, and bass and loves all styles of music! When he’s not teaching at Sing Like a Star Studios, he enjoys recording and performing his original songs around the country. 

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Important Information

Registation
All events are held remotely over Zoom. Please register for the events with the links provided. Registration requires an email address associated with Zoom or create a Zoom account.

Learn More
Visit our Padlet board to explore our speakers and events during 28 Days of Blackness at CIIS, and learn about the origins of this annual tradition.

Questions
For more information about any of the events hosted by the Black Psychology Project Jegnaship Program, please contact bpp@ciis.edu. 

About The Black Psychology Project

The Black Psychology Project at CIIS is an African-centered workshop series and leadership development program that focuses on African ancestry students - with inclusion of the broader CIIS community.

The Black Psychology Project raises awareness of and support for Black Psychology as a field of study and for its application and practice in one’s life work, personally and professionally.

A unique aspect of the project is the use of an African-centered leadership development and knowledge transfer praxis called Jegnaship.

Jegnaship is a relational African-centered intentionally guided development process for intergenerational knowing and knowledge transfer which engages in a mutual co-learning approach (Deterville, 2020). The Jegnaship process will facilitate the sustainability of the project each academic year as new cohorts and project alumni are engaged as participants.