More than 40 years ago, Steward Washington and other Black leaders in the mental health field noticed a troubling and obvious lack of services for low-income and non-white people in Jacksonville.

Black and white thinking is a thought pattern that makes people think in absolutes. For instance, you may think you are either always right or the world’s biggest failure.

Many Black mental health providers are forced to endure added stress and burden that white colleagues do not face: the burden of speaking up in a system that was not made to protect us.

The study examined the mental health of 38,993 Black adults — out of an initial sample of 103,710 respondents — who had had exposure to one or more police killings of unarmed Black Americans ...

O n Sept. 25, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration announced that it will be investing some $200 million in the youth mental health crisis. Since youth mental health was declared a national ...

Black youth in the U.S. experience more illness, poverty, and discrimination than their White counterparts. These issues put them at higher risk for depression and other mental health problems ...

Black and Latino students, as well as rural teenagers, have a harder time getting mental health services in their schools, according to a new survey from ACT. Similarly, students of colors were ...

Mental health matters, especially for Black women. “Too often, women of color try to muscle their way through depression and anxiety on their own.” By Rayna Reid Rayford · Updated July 27, 2023 ...

Our mental health system is not equipped to support the nation's current needs, let alone supporting much-needed healing processes for Black children and their families.

They endure pregnancies with more anxiety and depression than pregnant people who are white. And when experiencing mental health issues, Black women may unintentionally downplay their emotions.

As Black church grapples with mental health, clergy are both subject and solution (RNS) — A new movement has taken on the taboo in many Black churches against talking about suicide.