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April 25, 2024 |
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Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon's latest book, Lifting As They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation (Shambhala Publications, February 2024), is both a memoir and an exploration of how a growing number of Black Buddhist women have integrated Buddhist practices into their spiritual lives and identities. In a deeply personal and candid conversation, Pressley-Sanon describes the despair and loneliness that propelled her on her search.
Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. There, she studies the intersections of memory, history, and cultural production in both Africa and the African diaspora. Most recently, the author of Lifting As They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation.
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