Association of Black Psychologists

Association of Black Psychologists The ABPsi's mission is the liberation of the African Mind, empowerment of the African Character, and enlivenment and illumination of the African Spirit.

Our Mission
The Association of Black Psychologists sees its mission and destiny as the liberation of the African Mind, empowerment of the African Character, and enlivenment and illumination of the African Spirit. Purpose of the Association
1. The Association is organized to operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including but not limited to:

2. promoting and advancing the profession of African Psychology
influencing and affecting social change

3. developing programs whereby psychologists of African descent (hereafter known as Black Psychologists) can assist in solving problems of Black communities and other ethnic groups

Community Standards
We work hard to make the Association of Black Psychologists page and all of our social media platforms a protected place for our community. We will remove all racist comments and comments that cause harm. If you see any harmful comments, please share them with us. Content that violates FB’s community standards will be removed. https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/objectionable_content

Employers: Looking to connect with mission-driven psychology professionals?🔗 bit.ly/abpsicareersThe ABPsi Career Center ...
03/10/2026

Employers: Looking to connect with mission-driven psychology professionals?

🔗 bit.ly/abpsicareers

The ABPsi Career Center brings together scholars, practitioners, and emerging leaders committed to advancing the well-being of our communities. When you post opportunities through ABPsi, you are sharing them within a trusted professional network that values cultural insight, scholarship, and community impact.

What the Career Center offers employers

▶Share opportunities with a dedicated community of psychology and behavioral health professionals�
▶ Deliver your job directly to job seekers through the ABPsi Job Flash™ email�
▶ Search a focused resume bank to identify qualified candidates�
▶Engage with professionals who value culturally grounded practice and community impact

Explore the ABPsi Career Center and share your opportunity today.
🔗bit.ly/abpsicareers

You are seen. You are honored. You are not alone. ✨Join us for a Sawubona Healing Circle, a culturally grounded space fo...
03/07/2026

You are seen. You are honored. You are not alone. ✨

Join us for a Sawubona Healing Circle, a culturally grounded space for people of African/Black ancestry to gather, reflect, and heal in community.

🗓 March 7, 2026
⏰ 3:30–5:30 PM EST
📍 Silver Spring, MD + Virtual

🔗 Register: linktr.ee/TheABPsi

Congratulations 🎉 to the winners of our Early Bird Registration Contest for the ABPsi 57th Annual International Conventi...
03/06/2026

Congratulations 🎉 to the winners of our Early Bird Registration Contest for the ABPsi 57th Annual International Convention.

▶1st Prize
Lorenzo Washington
One complimentary room night at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, our convention host hotel.

▶2nd Prize
Azizi Gupton
Free Convention Registration

▶3rd Prize
Dr. Na'im Akbar
Free Convention Registration

Thank you to everyone who registered early and continues to support the mission of ABPsi, and to those who will be registering soon. This work happens because of you! We look forward to gathering together in Baltimore for this year’s convention.

The Illumination: Freeing the African Spirit

Pre-Convention: July 28, 2026
Convention: July 29 – August 1, 2026
Post-Convention: August 2, 2026

🔗 Register: abpsi.org/57thconvention ✊🏾

ABPsi honors 🕊️trailblazer and pioneer Dr. Janie (Jane) Marion Alexander Robinson.Dr. Jane A. Robinson was a trailblazer...
03/02/2026

ABPsi honors 🕊️trailblazer and pioneer Dr. Janie (Jane) Marion Alexander Robinson.

Dr. Jane A. Robinson was a trailblazer and foundational pillar in our community, serving as a founding member of the Michigan Association of Black Psychologists in April 1968. Her lifelong commitment to professional excellence, community organizing, and the uplift of Black people continues to shape our work and our responsibility today.

We honor her life.�We honor her leadership.�We honor her enduring impact. Aṣẹ.

We encourage our community to keep her daughter, ABPsi member Dr. Amorie Robinson, in your thoughts and prayers. Members may share condolences with her via the contact information you already have or visiting the guest book.

🔗 Read more: https://www.legacy.com/legacy/dr-jane-janie-robinson�
📄 Full tribute: https://bit.ly/drjanie

With love, care, and community,�The Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) Leadership Team

03/02/2026

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❤️🖤💚 Black Love Is Law. Black Love Is Legacy. Black Love Is Liberation.Tomorrow, we gather.The Association of Black Psyc...
03/01/2026

❤️🖤💚 Black Love Is Law. Black Love Is Legacy. Black Love Is Liberation.

Tomorrow, we gather.

The Association of Black Psychologists, Inc. invites you to another powerful Creating Zola Mondays experience — a sacred return to cosmic order, ancestral intelligence, and embodied philosophy.

Join us TOMORROW Monday, March 2 at 1:00 PM EST for:

“Cosmic Order & Ancestral Memory: Unlocking the Ancient Future”
Featuring Prof. Dr. Wayne B. Chandler, MS, CPH, SCE

Before colonization.
Before fragmentation.
Before distortion.

Our Alkebulan ancestors cultivated sciences of consciousness rooted in harmony, balance, universal law, and sacred memory. Love was never merely romantic — it was structural. Energetic. Cosmological.

The Hermetic principles remind us:

✨ As above, so below
✨ As within, so without
✨ Nothing rests — everything moves
✨ Balance restores order

This is not nostalgia.
This is remembrance.

Black love begins with alignment.
Black love is ancestral continuity.
Black love is embodied philosophy in motion.

📅 March 2, 2026
⏰ 1:00 PM EST
🎥 Live on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
🌐 www.ABPsi.org

Join us as we reclaim the sacred sciences that affirm our brilliance, our balance, and our collective healing.

02/27/2026

Family, the wait is almost over. Tomorrow, we begin the journey with the CABP Foundational Course 2026.

As Rameri Moukam, RMN, MA, Reg. UKCP, from the UK Chapter beautifully shared, “The aim of the course is to ground ourselves in our understanding that this is not about being a psychologist but psychology for the people.”

This course is about reclaiming, restoring, and grounding our work in the rich traditions and wisdom of our ancestors. We are honored to welcome you into this transformative experience.
If you’ve been waiting, there is still time to register.

➡️ abpsi.org/cabp ⬅️

🚨If you have any questions or need assistance registering, contact cabp@abpsi.org or servicedesk@abpsi.org or call (301) 449-3082. We are here to support you.

Tomorrow marks the beginning!

What to expect:
• Historical and philosophical foundations of African/Black Psychology
• Worldview paradigms grounded in African-centered frameworks
• Restorative technologies for culturally affirming spaces
• Praxis rooted in Afrikan/Black people’s being
• Preparation for a strong CABP certification application

Session Dates: February 28, March 28, April 25, May 23, and June 27
Saturdays | 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

🔹 15 CE credits available for an additional cost
Register now: abpsi.org/cabp

Moukam, RMN, MA, Reg. UKCP�Pattigift Therapy | Rameri Reshkhi

02/26/2026

Hear from Jermaine Robertson, PhD, CABP Co-Chair, as he shares why the CABP Committee is proud to present the CABP Foundational Course 2026: Foundations in African/Black Psychology, a five-session program launching this Saturday, February 28, 2026.

🔗Register now: abpsi.org/cabp

Developed by ABPsi and the Certification in African/Black Psychology (CABP) Committee and guided by the wisdom of Baba Dr. Wade Ifágbemi Sàngódáre Nobles, Co-Founder and Past President of ABPsi, this course is designed to provide the foundation for a strong certification application.

The CABP Foundational Course 2026 is the gateway into Certification in African/Black Psychology (CABP)™ — rooted in the wisdom, traditions, and genius of our ancestors.

Across five sessions, participants will engage:

• Historical and philosophical foundations of African/Black Psychology
• Worldview paradigms grounded in African-centered frameworks
• Restorative technologies for culturally affirming spaces
• Praxis rooted in Afrikan/Black people’s being
• Preparation for a strong CABP certification application

Saturdays | 12:00–3:00 PM EST
February 28 – June 27
15 CE credits available.

Register now: abpsi.org/cabp

For questions or troubleshooting, please contact us at cabp@abpsi.org, servicedesk@abpsi.org or (301) 449-3082.


ProfessionalDevelopment

We celebrate Black history every day. Today, we honor Dr. Wade W. Nobles, architect of African-centered psychological sc...
02/25/2026

We celebrate Black history every day. Today, we honor Dr. Wade W. Nobles, architect of African-centered psychological science.

Dr. Wade W. Nobles stands in a lineage that endured the barbarism of American slavery and transformed that inheritance into illumination.

His grandfather was born enslaved in 1863. His great-grandfather in 1836. His ancestors survived captivity in Edgefield, South Carolina, and were sold into plantation bo***ge. Yet from that lineage emerges a seeker of Sakhu, one committed to the restoration of African mind and Spirit.

The name “Wade” means one who is able to tread through difficulty, through mud, snow, or ignorance. Dr. Nobles has lived that meaning.

Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies and Black Psychology at San Francisco State University. Co-Founder and Past President of The Association of Black Psychologists, Inc. Founder of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture. Initiated into Ifa. Enstooled as Nana Kwaku Berko I in Ghana.

For more than forty years, Dr. Nobles has engaged in the theoretical development and programmatic application of African/Black Psychology grounded in classical African philosophy, traditional wisdom systems, and Spirit as the ultimate nature of reality.

His scholarship, including African Psychology: Toward Its Reclamation, Reascension and Revitalization and Seeking the Sakhu, calls us to think deeply about what it means “To Be African or Not to Be.”

This Black History Month, we are sharing a preview of Dr. Nobles’ essential readings for African/Black psychologists.

📣 ABPsi members receive complete access to the 150+ curated works as a guide for the continued reclamation, reascension, and revitalization of African/Black Psychology.

We close this month not with nostalgia, but with disciplined study, responsibility, and continued illumination.

AfricanConsciousness

As March approaches, PsychDiscourse invites article and one-minute video submissions from mental health professionals, e...
02/24/2026

As March approaches, PsychDiscourse invites article and one-minute video submissions from mental health professionals, educators, students, social workers, community organizers, and others with lived Black/African experience to respond to this month’s theme:

Honoring the Daughters of the Diaspora: Black Women, Wellness, and Liberation

In alignment with ABPsi’s 2026 convention theme, “The Illumination: Freeing the African Spirit,” we especially welcome submissions that explore how Black women’s wellness, healing practices, scholarship, creativity, and community leadership contribute to spiritual renewal, liberation, and the freeing of the African spirit across the diaspora.

Please submit articles or short videos for consideration by March 6, 2026

🔗Submissions: bit.ly/abpsiuplift

We also welcome submissions recognizing other March observances and themes, including:

▶︎ Women’s History Month
▶︎ World Teen Mental Wellness Day (03/02)
▶︎ International Women’s Day (03/08)
▶︎ Brain Awareness Week (03/10 – 03/16)
▶︎ International Day for the Elimination of Racial
▶︎ Discrimination (03/21)
▶︎ World Bipolar Day (03/30)
▶︎ Sleep Awareness Month

Submission Guidelines:
Articles should be 500 to 1500 words and written for both academic and general audiences (Arial 12 pt).

Deadline: by March 6, 2026.

*Prospective authors must create an account on PsychDiscourse Online and submit a 50-word author bio. 🔗psychdiscourse.com/register

Need assistance email: Servicedesk@abpsi.org

📣Become an ABPsi member for member-only updates and priority notices.

Montgomery County, we see you.We are honored to partner with the Black Physicians & Healthcare Network (BPHN) to bring S...
02/23/2026

Montgomery County, we see you.

We are honored to partner with the Black Physicians & Healthcare Network (BPHN) to bring Sawubona Healing Circles to our communities — culturally grounded spaces created specifically for residents with a lived Black experience.

“Sawubona” means I see you.

We see the resilience, the history, the brilliance, and the rich legacy of Black residents across Montgomery County — from East County to Silver Spring and beyond.

Connect with us in person on Saturday, February 28 from 3:30 PM as we uplift collective healing, strengthen community bonds, and honor the generations who built and continue to shape this county.

🗓 February 28, 2026
📍 Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library
⏰ 3:30–5:30 PM EST
🔗 Register: linktr.ee/TheABPsi

Space is limited. Come be in community.

02/20/2026

Learn directly from Dr. Sharon L. Bethea, PhD, Immediate Past President of The Association of Black Psychologists, Inc. (ABPsi) and Committee Member of the Certification in African/Black Psychology (CABP).

🔗 Register: abpsi.org/cabp

Dr. Bethea is a Professor in Counselor Education, African/African American Studies, and Inner-City Studies, and a co-founding member of the Genocide and Human Rights in Africa and the African Diaspora (GHRAD) at Northeastern Illinois University. She holds advanced training in Educational Psychology with specialization in Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies.

Her scholarship centers African-centered praxis with African/Black children, families, and communities. She has led international study abroad programs and engages in the study of African Indigenous healing traditions across global contexts.

The CABP Foundational Course 2026 is the gateway into Certification in African/Black Psychology (CABP)™ — rooted in the wisdom, traditions, and genius of our ancestors.

Across five sessions, participants will engage:

• Historical and philosophical foundations of African/Black Psychology
• Worldview paradigms grounded in African-centered frameworks
• Restorative technologies for culturally affirming spaces
• Praxis rooted in Afrikan/Black people’s being
• Preparation for a strong CABP certification application

Saturdays | 12:00–3:00 PM EST
February 28 – June 27
15 CE credits available.

Register now: abpsi.org/cabp

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About The ABPsi

The Association of Black Psychologists (The ABPsi) was founded in 1968 by a group of Black Psychologists, led by Joseph White, who were disaffected by the benign and malignant neglect of the American Psychological Association.

The purposes of The ABPsi are to counter racism in psychology and to promote Black Psychology as a more accurate portrayal of the human condition. The ABPsi has authored dozens of position papers on issue of importance to its members and the general public. The ABPsi supports graduate and undergraduate students in psychology.

The scholarly arm of The ABPsi is manifested in The Journal of Black Psychology, published in collaboration with Sage Publications and now in its 46th year (in 2020). The ABPsi also publishes PsychDiscourse: NewsJournal of The Association of Black Psychologists that provides news and views of the Association’s membership.

Visit The ABPsi at www.abpsi.org.