February 23, 2026
Our Minds Are the Last Battlefield
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
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February 10, 2026
Black History Month and the Work of Clarity
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January 18, 2026
This Is Not the 1960s. It’s Worse.
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
December 28, 2025
Why Human Solutions Keep Falling Short
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
December 14, 2025
2025 Didn’t Break Us. It Exposed the Truth
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
November 30, 2025
Where There Is Fear, There Is Opportunity
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
November 16, 2025
Transcendent Love
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November 2, 2025
The Question Is the Medicine
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
October 19, 2025
The Case for a New Kind of Leadership
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
October 5, 2025
Memory, Resistance, Rebirth
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
September 21, 2025
The Vanishing Pulpit
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
September 7, 2025
The Intraracial Crisis
The Real Deal Press · The People’s Scholar
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Public writing · Newsletter
The Liberated Mind · Substack
August 28, 2026
It’s All in My Head
The Liberated Mind · Substack · A theory of psychology as sociology internalized, and why the wound rarely originates where we find it.
June 19, 2026
The Wilderness of Becoming
The Liberated Mind · Substack · The Sociology of Liminality
June 12, 2026
The Distortion of Love
The Liberated Mind · Substack · At the core of who we are is love.
May 28, 2026
The Most Valuable Thing You Own
The Liberated Mind · Substack · What if the greatest threat to human freedom is control over human attention?
May 5, 2026
The Black Vote Isn’t Disappearing. It’s Withdrawing.
The Liberated Mind · Substack · On the VRA ruling, quiet disengagement, and what Black leadership must reckon with before November.
April 13, 2026
Why the Wire Is Gone But the Shape Remains
The Liberated Mind · Substack · Introducing Bonsai Theory.
April 3, 2026
The Discipline of Clarity
The Liberated Mind · Substack · A conversation worth having.
March 13, 2026
The HBCU Productivity Paradox
The Liberated Mind · Substack · One of the most overlooked facts in American higher education.
February 27, 2026
Why I’m Here
The Liberated Mind · Substack · On systems, teaching, and the ways power shapes how we see ourselves.
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Public writing · Magazine
Coded M Magazine
August 12, 2026
POWER DOESN’T GRIEVE-IT REASSIGNS
Code M Magazine · Timothy D. Goler, Ph.D. · Politics
April 8, 2026
The Discipline of Clarity
Coded M Magazine
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Academic work · Journals and scholarly records
Journal articles and scholarly records
2024
Compassionate Love and Intersectional Inequalities in Later-Life Mental Health in the US
Innovation in Aging · Article
2023
Dissecting Racial Differences in the Perception of Domain-Specific Life Satisfaction
Innovation in Aging · Conference abstract
2022
Longing for Love: Financial Strain and Later Life Mental Health in the US
Innovation in Aging · Conference abstract
2022
The Intersection of Race and Financial Strain: The Pain of Social Disconnection Among Women in the United States
Journal of Women & Aging · Article
2021
Aging Into Disability: A Conceptual Challenge for Gerontology
Innovation in Aging · Article
2021
Financial Hardship and the Pain of Social Disconnection During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Innovation in Aging · Conference abstract
2021
Racial Differences in Self-Appraisal, Religious Coping, and Psychological Well-being in Later Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of Elder Policy · Article
2021
Coping With Uncertainty: Use of Contemplative Practices Amid a Pandemic
PubMed record · Scholarly record
2020
Double Consciousness: Explaining Racial Paradox in Later Life Psychological Well-Being
Innovation in Aging · Article
2019
Racial Differences in Contemplative Practices in Later Life: Examining the Role of SES and Health Disadvantage
Innovation in Aging · Conference abstract
2018
Beyond the Veil of Life Satisfaction: Lessons From Urban African American Elders
Innovation in Aging · Conference abstract
2018
Speak Up! An Intervention to Promote Cancer Screening and Prevention Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Innovation in Aging · Article
2015
Childhood Autism and Proactive Family Coping: Intergenerational Perspectives
Journal of Intergenerational Relationships · Article
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Academic work · Chapters and policy
Book chapters and policy work
2019
Grandparent–Grandchild Relationships: A Proposed Mutuality Model With a Focus on Young Children and Adolescents
Scholarly book chapter · Book chapter
2015
Forgiveness: Complexities and Paradoxes in the Context of Genocide and Slavery
Scholarly book chapter · Book chapter
2015
Talking About Cancer Prevention and Screening: The Back Door to Better Self-care and Medical Care
Academia.edu profile · Academic book chapter record
2007
The Rap on Culture: How Anti-Education Messages in Media, at Home, & on the Street Hold Back African-American Youth
PolicyBridge · Policy report
Featured public conversation
Liberated Mind: clarity, identity, and the conditions that shape us.
A City Club of Cleveland conversation on how inequality becomes embedded not only in institutions but also in perception and the internalization of stereotypes.
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A public conversation on clarity.
Watch Dr. Goler discuss the ideas behind Liberated Mind and the work of seeing more clearly, choosing more consciously, and moving through life with greater freedom.
