An Advertorial by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Research Scientist in Africana Phenomenology | ShockMetaphysics.com Let us begin with what most people are afraid to say out loud. The war between Black men and Black women is not a cultural…
A Four-Part Blog Series by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | SHOCKmethod.com | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com The Question That Changes Everything There is a logic embedded in the entire architecture of Dr. Joy DeGruy’s scholarly project that only becomes fully visible when…
A Four-Part Blog Series by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | SHOCKmethod.com | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com Why Debate Matters Within Liberation Scholarship In the tradition of serious Africana scholarship, intellectual debate is not a sign of weakness or crisis. It is a…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Research Scientist in Africana Phenomenology “It is characteristic of the blacks that their consciousness has not yet arrived at the intuition of any objectivity. He is a being in the rough. Africa has no…
A Four-Part Blog Series by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | SHOCKmethod.com | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com Before the Diagnosis: Understanding What Slavery Actually Did Any serious engagement with Dr. Joy DeGruy’s theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome must begin where DeGruy herself…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Research Scientist in Africana Phenomenology Metaphysical Minister of Mental Liberation | SHOCKmethod.com Grand Rising Family! There is a particular kind of wound that does not bleed on the surface — it bleeds through generations,…
A Four-Part Blog Series by Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews | SHOCKmethod.com | ShockTraumaFreeWebinar.com The Formation of a Scholar Who Would Change Everything Every major intellectual contribution in human history has a biography behind it—a set of lived experiences, encounters,…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews Your nervous system is a battlefield. Right now, as you read these words, there’s a biological war happening inside your body—a war that started before you were born, that your parents inherited from their…
A Black Trauma Podcast Conversation with Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews When Jelani Clay—known in the spiritual hip hop world as JClay—opens his mouth to rap, something remarkable happens. His lyrics carry what one psychologist calls “the precision of a…
Series Introduction In the landscape of contemporary African-centered scholarship, few voices resonate with the transformative power of Marimba Ani. Born Dona Richards, this anthropologist, scholar, and intellectual activist has fundamentally reshaped how we understand the relationship between culture, power, and…
