THE AIEJ THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Books, Essays, Keynotes, Theatre, Video, Podcasts

ON RETURNING: NANA AMOAKO-ANIN & MAAME ADJEI

ON CIVICS EDUCATION: KATHLEEN ADDY

YEAR 3: 2019

#AfricanWomanDay: Social Media Campaign

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THEATRE

EAA Media Productions engaged and developed Theatre as a Creative Tool to deliver and explore Emotional Justice ideas to global audiences.

ACCRA

August 2018

#safeCARGO

Written & Directed by Esther Armah

Featuring: Pearl Korkey Darkey

Featuring: Kwaku Ankomah

Accra’s British Council is transformed into a black box theatre.

NEW YORK & CHICAGO

March 2014 & October 2011

SAVIOUR?

Written by Esther Armah

Directed by Passion

Dwyer Cultural Center, Manhattan & etaCREATIVE ARTS, Chicago.

Post-perfromance discussion: Lynn Nottage - Pulitzer-Prize winner; Marc Lamont Hill – BET & CNN Commentator; Moderator – Zerlina Maxwell – MSNBC Commentator

NEW YORK

June 2009

Forgive Me?

Written by: Esther Armah

Directed by: Trezana Beverley

Featuring: Beverley Prentice

Featuring: Gilbert Glenn

Manhattan International Theater Festival & Dwyer Cultural Center

NEW YORK

June 2009

ENTITLED!

Written by Esther Armah

Directed by: Petronia Paley

Dwyer Cultural Center

New York

2007

CAN I BE ME?

Written by Esther A Armah

The Roger Furman Play-reading Series

2013 - 2009 NEW YORK

EJconvos

These were an annual season of intimate public conversations held in New York. We brought together high-profile contributors from the worlds of art, activism, academia, and journalism. EJconvos were held at The Brecht Forum in Manhattan and The Cultural Center in Harlem.

In The AIEJ’s Thought Leadership, the Emotional Justice roadmap is explored, contextualized and connected through topical issues and presented to a global audience.

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BOOKS

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE: a roadmap for racial healing

Published: October 11th 2022

Currently available for pre-order

https://amzn.to/3vvSfHQ

#1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZON

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE: a roadmap for racial healing has been a #1 New Release on Amazon in the category, General Sociology of Race Relations for five straight weeks. It is now a #1 New Release in the category, Cultural Anthropology.

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BOOK ENDORSEMENTS

GLOBAL BOOK TOUR

Esther will be going on global book tour with this work to three cities in three countries on three continents: New York, London and Accra. Below are her book tour dates.

BOOK TOUR STOP 1

NEW YORK NEW JERSEY

LONDON

GHANA

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PANELS

June 2020

Converging Pandemics: Black Life In A State of Emergency

Convened by: Dr. Joshua Bennett, Dept. of English and Dr. Monica Ndounou, Dept. of Theatre, Dartmouth College

Featuring speakers: Professor Ruha Benjamin – Princeton; Esther Armah - The AIEJ; Che Gossett, Writer

The Future is Emotional Justice by Esther Armah, CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice.

2014

Women & Power

Omega Women’s Leadership Centre

AIEJ Executive Director brings Emotional Justice to the Omega Centre for Holistic Studies

2014

Women & Power

Omega Women’s Leadership Centre

AIEJ Executive Director Esther Armah is an Omega Women’s Leadership Fellow.

Expanding our Notion of Culture. Emotional Justice within Diversity & Inclusion

2014

Mandela: The Man, The Movement, and Correcting the White Gaze

All In With Chris Hayes

MSNBC

2011

I Am A Man : Masculinity summit

Rev. Al Sharpton Action Network

AIEJ Executive Director Esther Armah was invited to explore Emotional Justice in the framework of Black masculinity at this July 2011 summit. On panel were also: Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, Dr. L’Hereux Lewis and Cleo Manago.

KEYNOTES

UK KEYNOTES

OCTOBER 2021

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE in a time of COVID

A Presentation to UK Chief Nurses

OCTOBER 2021

BUILDING OUR NEW NORMAL

Work & Emotional Justice

A Keynote to UNISON

ESSAYS

BOOKS

Emotional Justice essays have been published in the following books:-

‘The Black Immigrant’

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019

Edited by Dr. Ibram X Kendi & Dr. Keisha Blain

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‘Black Bodies, White Terrorism – A Global ReImagining of Forgiveness’

Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism & Racial Violence

Edited by: Drs. Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, Keisha Blain

‘Emotional Justice’

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams

Edited by Rebecca Walker

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE WRITING SERIES

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE IN AFRICA

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL TIMES

2022 – PRESENT

Africa Needs Emotional Justice

https://thebftonline.com/2022/08/02/africa-needs-emotional-justice/

THE TROUBLE WITH GLOBAL DIVERSITY

https://thebftonline.com/2022/08/09/the-trouble-with-global-diversity/

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE in the WORLD OF DIPLOMACY

https://thebftonline.com/2022/08/23/emotional-justice-in-the-world-of-diplomacy/

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE

The new racial healing model

https://thebftonline.com/2022/09/27/emotional-justice-the-new-racial-healing-model/

WARSCAPES

2016 – present

WARSCAPES is an independent online magazine, a portal publishing critical work by writers, thinkers, academics, activists providing lens on conflicts across the world. The Emotional Justice Writing Series connects conflict to the Emotional Justice roadmap.

PUBLICATIONS

Exploring Emotional Justice through issues from popular culture, to current affairs in global publications in the US, the UK and Ghana including The Guardian, AlterNet, Essence, Ebony, Global Grind, Business & Financial Times.

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Beware! Statementism and Tweak-o-nomics - July 2020

http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/beware-statementism-and-tweak-o-nomics

‘Armed, White & Deadly; Unarmed, Black & Dead – June 2020

http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/armed-white-deadly-unarmed-black-dead

How To Talk About Racism In Britain - March 2020

http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/how-talk-about-racism-britain

From I Can’t Grieve to I Can’t Breathe: Black Grief Matters – July 2019

http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/i-can-t-breathe-i-can-t-grieve-black-grief-matters

Haunted & Hunted: Emotional Justice for #TheExoneratedFive – March 2019

http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/haunted-and-hunted-emotional-justice-theexonerated5

Jay Z 4:44 Intimate Reckoning

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jay-z-444-intimate-reckoning_us_5a38ebdee4b0c12e6337b097

What Black women want and need

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/emotional-justice-what-black-women-want-and-need

‘Birthdays. Legacies, Love, Leadership:

Letter to Winnie Mandela – Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/letter-to-winnie-mandela_b_1684393.html

The Missionary’s Position – Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/the-missionarys-position_b_4417227.html

On Boston & Violence – an Intimate Relationship – Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/on-boston-violence_b_3096145.html

Black Bodies, White Terrorism – A Global ReImagining of Forgiveness

http://gawker.com/black-bodies-white-terrorism-a-global-reimagining-of-1715637306

SELMA: The Beautiful, Complicated, Connected Histories of Global Black Folk – Gawker

http://review.gawker.com/the-beautiful-complicated-connected-histories-of-blac-1679342925

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What black woman wants and need

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theSWAGspot: Intimate Public Space to Talk Love, Lessons and Legacy With Men for Men

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/theswagspot-intimate-publ_b_3399877.html

The Other National Conversation? White Privilege

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/the-other-national-conver_1_b_3660742.html

Lil Kim: Diary of a Mirror

http://www.ebony.com/wellness-empowerment/essay-lil-kim-diary-of-a-mirror

https://www.theroot.com/lil-kim-and-our-relationship-with-beauty-1790892818

Lupita: Black Beauty’s Intimate Revolution

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/lupita-back-beautys-intim_b_4979518.html

Emotional Justice: On ‘Perfect’ Victims and ‘Ideal’ Predators

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/emotional-justice-on-perf_2_b_3968774.html

The Empathy Exodus

http://warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/empathy-exodus

An Open Letter to Ice Cube

http://warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/open-letter-ice-cube-and-all-brothers-supporting-him

Africa Emotional Justice Writing Column

Business & Financial Times - Ghana

AMIDU and RAWLINGS: the lionized and the bastardized

https://thebftonline.com/19/11/2020/amidu-and-rawlings-the-lionized-and-the-bastardized-by-esther-armah/

Unconscious bias: rethink & reject

https://thebftonline.com/05/11/2020/unconscious-bias-rethink-reject-by-esther-armah/

UNMASKED: external shine, internal struggle

https://thebftonline.com/29/10/2020/unmasked-external-shine-internal-struggle/

RAYE, RETURN and a RECKONING

“I am Queen Mother of Ghana!” said Lisa Raye, an African-American actress, philanthropist, and the former First Lady of Turks and Caicos on The Wendy Williams Show. Raye explained on the US-television show she was using her platform to work on issues of education in Ghana, build a small school there and raise peace and awareness. The audience cheered enthusiastically. ‘Good for you’, said Wendy Williams.

The Wendy Williams show is watched by an average of 1.6 million people daily. Raye’s ‘Queen Mother’ naming ceremony news has made global headlines, garnered controversy, and has been the focus of discussion, derision, anger, ridicule and hurt. I was in Philadelphia watching this. It was still a point of discussion when I landed back home in Accra...

https://thebftonline.com/2019/features/raye-returnees-and-a-reckoning/

BROTHERHOOD of SILENCE

“I witnessed a rape at 17 years old. The girl was 14 years, the younger sister of a friend. There were 8 to 10 guys there. I felt helpless and guilty. I did nothing. We all feared the rapist. I felt terrible. That moment is seared into my memory. This is an experience I regret to this very day. I learned to speak up. I had to unlearn silence,” says Kwesi, a Ghanaian man in an interview for #IAmUNLEARNING, a groundbreaking three-year project on African manhood and masculinity here in Ghana...

https://thebftonline.com/2019/features/brotherhood-of-silence-your-silence-will-not-save-you/

PODCASTS

THE SPIN #smartISsexy 2019 – 2014

EAA Media Productions produces The Spin: a global podcast on Soundcloud and iTUNES. It also airs on radio stations across the US, in London, Ghana and Nigeria.

The Spin features global women of color from the worlds of Journalism, Activism, Art and Academia, exploring the world of policy, politics, power, leadership, sex.

The Spin has been recorded at NPR New York, NPR Washington, BBC Ghana.

Listen to The Spin content here:- https://soundcloud.com/thespin1

Join The Spin Facebook community:- https://www.facebook.com/TheSpin1/

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The Spin The Consent Convo

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#reImaginingAFRICA on THE SPIN: May 2018

This 3-part special invites us to reimagine a Continent that centers visionary leadership of African women across the sectors: PHILANTHROPY, EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP, TECHNOLOGY in May 2018. May 25th honors the founding of the Organization of African Unity that became the African Union.