Using storytelling and African-centered social work to amplify a Black man’s voice!

The First Amendment provides the freedom of speech in the United States of America (USA). "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" (US Const. amend. I). Does everyone have the same First Amendment rights? Does everyone have that freedom equally? When you're a Black man in America, and Double Consciousness still exists, how do you navigate racism and oppression? This paper is an auto-ethnographic experience of a Black man's denial of their First Amendment right, telling the story, journey through Double Consciousness, racial trauma, and the healing using Narrative Therapy.