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Senate Passes Baldwin’s Bipartisan Reform to Create Three-Digit Suicide Prevention Hotline

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s bipartisan reform to designate a three-digit phone number for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline has passed the full

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

How to Handle Disapproval of Interracial Relationships

If youre in an interracial relationship, you may be crazy about your partner but dismayed that others disapprove. Strangers stare at the two of you when you walk hand-in-hand down the street. Friends ask questions about “those people” and family members say they fear for your future

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Source: ThoughtCo

Maia Campbell Among 44 Arrested In Atlanta Street Racing Sting

Maia Campbell was among dozens of individuals arrested in a crackdown on illegal street racing in

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Source: Black America Web

Watson, Diane Edith (1933- )

Diane Edith Watson was born November 12, 1933 in Los Angeles, California and has spent the majority of her life in the Los Angeles area. Her father was a Los Angeles policeman and her mother worked nights at a post office after her parents divorced when Watson was

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Source: Black Past

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Working From Home With Distractions

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Source: Business Daily

Rwanda: COVID-19 - Muslims to Celebrate an 'Unusual' Eid UL Fitri

The Mufti of Rwanda, Sheikh Saleh Hitimana, has said that in a bid to continue fighting the spread of COVID-19, Muslims will this year conduct the Eid ul Fitri prayers to mark the end of Ramadan in the confines of their

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Source: allAfrica.com

Therapist S. Tia Brown drops gems on protecting your mental health during COVID-19

And in the middle of this new fear and frenzy, the Dear Culture podcast would like to take the time to slow things down and think deeply about how coronavirus has been affecting our overall

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Source: theGrio

How High School Seniors can Navigate COVID-19 Uncertainty

For high school seniors bound for college, the COVID-19 pandemic struck at a pivotal time in life — as they finish one chapter and prepare to start a new

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Harris, Sherry D. (1957- )

Sherry D. Harris was the first out black lesbian elected to public office in 1991 in the United States. This also gave her the distinction of being the first African American woman on the Seattle City Council in Washington

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The Stigma of Mental Illness in the Black Community

This is when I realized the depth of mental health stigma in the African American

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

Uganda: How Uganda is Tackling Mental Challenges of COVID-19 Lockdown

Focusing on the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) pillar, there are many highlights and lessons of Uganda's frontline service providers fighting coronavirus

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Source: allAfrica.com

COVID & mental health

Usually, when we recognise that persons are having challenges, the first thing that we recommend is that they reach out and interact with

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

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Pam Butler’s Road to Recovery Helps Those in Active Addictions

After graduating from high school in 1983, Butler attended Jacksonville State University, where she studied engineering—it’s also where she tried cocaine, which led to an addiction that lasted for a decade and frequent trips to treatment

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Source: The Birmingham Times

What About Our Children?

In mid-May 2020, the Center of Disease Control issued a report which states, in

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery and the Irish”

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Kevin and Bill Deserved Better | Afro

This week Brown and his partner Bill Maughlin, who are co-owners of Nancy by SNAC, a restaurant on North Ave. in the Station North Arts Community, were physically attacked and subsequently terrorized by individuals experiencing

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

LETTERS: Coronavirus is not a gender-blind disease

The World Health Organisation recognises the need to include women in outbreaks preparedness and response such as the global Covid-19 policy spaces but other than the disaggregation of the disease burden by gender, response measures have not addressed the gendered

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Source: Business Daily

Urgent Call: Establish Federal Office of Men’s Health | Afro

It is time for an ‘Office of Men’s Health’ because preventable male death and illness is decreasing the quality of life for

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

World Mental Health Awareness Week: An opportune time to be kind

COVID-19 disturbances have had a direct impact on most people’s mental health in one way or the other and the best way to treat anyone you meet is just to be kind because virtually everyone is under some sort of mental

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

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Source: Black Past

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HUGS Free Vitual Healing with Telehealth Sessions | Afro

There are extra demands on our medical profession, and Dr. Eugenia Agard DBH, LMHC, owner and operator of a comprehensive clinical mental health private practice entitled HUGS (Healing Understanding Guiding and Supportive Services) has made a commitment to help frontline providers with Free Vitual

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Historically Black Colleges Work To Help Students Amid Virus

The school of 268 students helped Johnson, and others like her, despite its somewhat shaky financial condition and concerns that COVID-19 could make things

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Source: Black America Web

Memorial Day: Why veterans are particularly vulnerable to the...

This work revealed gaps in health care and financial support for veterans, even though they have the best publicly funded benefits in the

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Master P Calls Out The ‘Devils’ Of Reality TV After Leaving ‘Growing Up Hip Hop’

“I’m only showing you this so next time you’re watching this show you can use your real judgement [sic] and see how they flip peoples words and change positive moments into negative,” Master P wrote in his Instagram post along with a video of him talking with a woman who seems to be a producer for

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Source: NewsOne

Implicit Bias a Driver of COVID-19 among African Americans

Dr. Melva Thompson-Robinson knows the data on the disparate impact of the corona virus and COVID-19 on African Americans and other

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Black People, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the Risk of Death From Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Data reveals that Black people are more than four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than white people in England and Wales and that even after adjusting for age, socioeconomic conditions and prior health, the figures show that Black people remain twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than white

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Source: http://www.blacknews.com

Tedx Speaker Dena Crowder Offers 3-Minute Guide On Our Mental Health and Well-Being During the Pandemic (WATCH)

May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the U.S., and in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, many of us are finding our mental well-being challenged in unexpected, extraordinary

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

George M. Johnson's New Memoir Reminds Us That ‘All Boys Aren't Blue’

I didn’t really know much about book genres or categories; I just knew I had this story about this Black queer kid growing

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Africa: COVID-19 Strategies Africa Can Learn From

There are of course huge differences between US states and African countries, but consider for a moment that the US has one international

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Source: allAfrica.com

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