Courageous conversations surrounding mental health in the Black community

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Courageous conversations surrounding mental health in the Black community

BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - In honor of National Minority Mental Health Month, the Center for Wellness and Clinical Development held its second annual State of Black Health conference on July 28. The virtual dialogue from leaders across Florida featured recent data trends and a courageous conversation about mental health in the […]

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19

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Inventor, FW Leslie, patents the envelope seal, 1891

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James Weldon Johnson resigned

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19

1930

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19

1925

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James Augustine Healy

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10

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The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urgesits members to educat

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1787

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26

1893

NAACP Executive Director

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8

1981

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5

1946

Virginia passes a fugitive slave order penalizing those who assistrunaway slav

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1642

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13

1861

Ratification of the 13th Amendment

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6

1865

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17

1862

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14

1775

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1951

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20

1868

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1829

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28

1778

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3

1947

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21

1881

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17

1787

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