“The Well” is a recurring column to remind us of the power we possess in mind, body and spirit. I have always enjoyed time to myself. Maybe it’s because I was the only child and grandchild on both sides of my family for ten years. I could always find a way to entertain myself in […]
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Black Kids And Suicide: Why Are Rates So High, And So Ignored? | Blavity
… 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, […]
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Corey Michael Hadley, Army infantryman and sharpshooter, dies at 30 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
After six years and three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Corey Michael Hadley returned home to Philadelphia in 2013. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As an Army rifleman in a leadership role, Mr. Hadley had spent many days traveling door to door to root out armed militia members and terrorists who had sworn to kill Americans. […]
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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
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 […]
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Portland coach who comforted armed student named one of Time magazine’s heroes of 2019 | Q13 Fox
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) — A Portland high school coach who confronted and comforted an armed student back in May has been named a hero by Time magazine. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On May 17, Angel Granados-Diaz brought a loaded shotgun into Parkrose High School while experiencing a mental health crisis. When Keanon Lowe, the school’s track and […]
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This App Matches People of Color with a Therapist Who Shares a Similar Background | Black Enterprise
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 […]
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The Untold Story Of An African American Family Affected By A Broken Health Care System | Forbes
In January of 2013, my family was hit with an incredible blow. My partner and the father of my two children took his own life. The week Jamir passed away, I talked to him and noticed changes in his behavior. I asked him if he wanted to talk to a professional, but he was uncomfortable […]
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Suicide attempts by Black teens have risen, and I’m not surprised | Mic
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 […]
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Entrepreneur Prioritizes Supporting Black Women in Madison | AFRO
Lisa Speckhard Pasque, The Capital Times, AFRO Sabrina Madison, founder, at the Progress Center for Black Women in Fitchburg, Wis. — photos by Michelle Stocker/The Capital Times via AP, Featured Image [dropcap]MADISON[/dropcap], Wis. (AP) — It’s a Wednesday afternoon at Ford’s Gym, a “Rocky”-style gym filled with “regular old-school dudes,” Sabrina Madison says. That’s why […]
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US healthcare prices set to skyrocket after ‘Obamacare’ scrapped | Al Jazeera
Many will have to pay a lot more for insurance after Trump got rid of subsidies provided by the Affordable Care Act.
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