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Black Kids And Suicide: Why Are Rates So High, And So Ignored? | Blavity

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020African American Health, Mental Health

… Black youth at risk may even be more difficult to identify than non-Black youth. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Teen suicide rates among black youth are increasing. In 2016 and again in 2018, national data revealed that among children age 5-11, black children had the highest rate of death by suicide. For the years 2008 to 2012, […]

Etika (b. 1990), The Lives They Lived: Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. | The New York Times

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020African American Health, Mental Health

His mental health problems collided tragically with the attention economy. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On midnight of June 20, a new video went live on Etika’s channel. In it, the 29-year-old YouTube star filmed himself as he walked through Lower Manhattan, speaking to the camera with a steady clarity that seemed almost eerie in light of his […]

This App Matches People of Color with a Therapist Who Shares a Similar Background | Black Enterprise

December 22, 2019December 22, 2019African American Commuities, Mental Health

Former investment banker Eric Coly decided to launch a startup after a close friend confided to him that she needed counseling. She was struggling to find a therapist, not because there weren’t any available, her issue was finding a black therapist. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Coly, a native of Senegal, understood her situation all too well. He […]

Suicide attempts by Black teens have risen, and I’m not surprised | Mic

October 17, 2019March 30, 2020African American Commuities, African American Health ...

I remember the first time a friend of mine died by suicide. I was living in Washington, D.C. when I got the phone call from our mutual friend, Preston. The friend we’d just lost was a young Black man brimming with potential. He had a smile that lit up a room and an incomparable sense […]

Taraji P. Henson Launches Foundation for Mental Health Awareness | Los Angeles Sentinel

November 16, 2018African American Health, KOLUMN ...

Lauren A. Jones , Los Angeles Sentinel Photo by Sara Jaye Weiss. Featured Image [dropcap]Oscar[/dropcap]-nominated actor Taraji P. Henson launched the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation in honor of her late father, on Sept. 23 at a private estate in Beverly Hills to raise awareness for mental health in the Black community. Henson kicked off the […]

Why I’ll Be Choosing My Next Therapist by Race | Glamour

June 8, 2018African American Health, African American News ...

For generations strength meant survival; illness of any kind meant weakness (and danger), and God was the only therapy you’d need.

Who cares about her mental health | The Weekly Challenger

May 18, 2018African American Health, African American News ...

Simone overcame many obstacles in her life to rise to being inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame as well as into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.