Racial reckoning, resistance, and the revolution: A call to community psychology to move forward

This article introduces a special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology that features racial reckoning, resistance and the revolution in the context of a syndemic, the historical subjugation of communities of Color (COC) to racial hierarchies and the coronavirus (COVID‐19). More specifically, this special issue underscores the need for community psychology and other allied disciplines to address this syndemic facing COC. The special issue delivers on the stories of the lived experiences from researchers and community members as it relates to COVID‐19 and COC. Twelve articles are illuminated to challenge the field to create social change. Highlights This special issue represents an array of voices to answer the call: reckoning, resistance, and revolution as an important endeavor for the field of community psychology. The articles included in this special issue underscore the need for community psychologists to work together with other allied fields to proactively, and strategically center the experiences of communities of Color to understand how different groups have navigated COVID‐19. As we begin 2023 and our communities continue to navigate the effects of COVID‐19 and the work that has been done around issues of racial reckoning, this special issue is an important contribution to the field because it allows community psychologists across the country and internationally to critically analyze, learn and propose interventions that can address more comprehensively and appropriately to better the mental health outcomes of communities of Color, disenfranchised and marginalized groups.