More Life: The Reentry Podcast continues the Black History Month series, Reentry: The Next Civil Rights Movement. Tune into our episodes this entire month to learn more about the Black community and their experiences post incarceration.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day and Black History Month with Dr. Janae Bonsu-Love and VanKe’via as they discuss Black women’s pathways health and self-care in reentry. Dr. Bonsu-Love highlighted the health challenges/needs of Black women post incarceration and how Black women care for themselves during reentry. Dr. Bonsu-Love is the director of research and advocacy of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI). Dr. Bonsu-Love comes to NBWJI as an activist-scholar, policy advocate, and Licensed Master Social Worker committed to ending criminalization while supporting the healing of Black women, girls and nonbinary people. She has a decade of research and advocacy experience on issues spanning the criminal and juvenile legal systems with particular interest and expertise in the areas of policing, reentry, and gender-based violence.

If you are interested in learning more about Dr. Bonsu-Love’s work and the National Black Women’s Justice Institute please review the following links:

Black Women's Health & Self-Care in Reentry

End the War on Black Women

National Black Women's Justice Institute

Instagram: @nbwji

Twitter: @NBWJInstitute, @janaebonsu

Need more information about Blacks’ experiences post incarceration or how to better support Black/African-Americans post incarceration please see the following information:

Resilience in Formerly Incarcerated Black Women

Need to find reentry resources state by state: Reentry Essentials

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