It wouldn’t make sense, she says, for her to preach emotional justice — a term she coined in her work centered around racial healing — and not put it into practice. Credit: LCLNow, through her writing, advocacy, and the Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, she is building a global movement rooted in honesty, storytelling, healing, and rejecting respectability politics. “Storytelling informs how we move through the world.”Now, as the founder of the Armah Institute for Emotional Justice, Armah not only tells stories, but also gathers them. “Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing,” her first book, was published in 2022. In Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing, Esther Armah’s first book, she gathers 300 stories about the oral histories of Black doctors and nurses from Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.