Joy DeGruy: Highlights from the 2017 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Address

Joy DeGruy is an educator, activist and author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing. She spent a day on campus meeting with students and faculty to discuss issues of race and civil rights today and the responsibility of citizens to speak out against injustice.
Later in the evening, she delivered the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Address to a public audience. She spoke on the enduring shadow cast by the American slave trade and the subsequent discrimination against African Americans in the years following the Civil War. Her remarks also covered the research that has been done on epigenetics, and understanding how trauma can be passed down through generations, making the need for healing of past wounds essential.

[@EarthAngel504]

I can Listen to this BRILLIANT Doctor all day.. Dr. Joy Degruy, just what the doctor ordered.

[@LadyCharity]

Gosh I WISH I had a professor that great in college! Love her!

[@thurstonhowell7441]

I had a dream. I woke up and defined it!

[@shylenethoroughgood6705]

I love this lady!! She gives all!! She is real!! So intelligent!! God bless her!!!🙏🙌🙏

[@cookieDaXapper]

Awesome, will share! PEACE family.

[@jbklynalwayz30]

beautiful ..

[@Qu33n]

Where is the full video?

[@ryran]

UR has videos for the Commemorative Addresses from other years ... sad that there's no full video for this one. That said, you can find tons of other videos of Dr. DeGruy online, e.g.: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHjNhJeXrpyZlZo and kzbin.info/www/bejne/hny4ZGOMhLhnmdU

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She’s my actual mom

[@brandonwolf3046]

Truly and educator

[@stephaniebutler7300]

I pray you can speak to the more people, Powerful Truths!!!

[@Solidstone67]

We love you Joy!!

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Wow 💗

[@AssanRaelian]

Excellent video 👋🏿

[@bigmike1974]

very beautiful woman....and smart

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The Virtuous Noble Lie as a Trap of the Ocult Agreement of Consent ❤️ 💚 💜

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I love it.

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Sisterlocs!

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[@lindadelnegro]

I don’t have to wake up from my dreams of being attacked, over, and over, and over.

[@illuminated_]

Thats not the original statue of liberty

[@michaelholmes3470]

SHE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS.MAKE IT SO PLAIN EVEN A FOOLISH MAN CAN UNDERSTAND...A CREDIT TO HER RACE (HUMAN RACE).NOW THIS WOMAN CAN REALLY TEACH ME SOMETHING...IS CLASS IN CESSION?

[@christopherturner8596]

I refuse to be a victim... somebody gone be my victim more like it.

[@jimmymags6516]

her whole theory is calling all blacks victims .

[@germainesanders768]

Greetings. An organize lie, can be more effective than an unorganized truth.

[@Grld1025]

I love u Dr joy and I love your work,but mam we are not from Africa !we are pure American

[@wjsjallday]

Are ancestors came from AFRIKA if YOU ARE BLACK. ??