Understanding Addiction and Its Effect on Your Mental Health: A Suicide Toolkit
Jennifer Scott runs SpiritFinder.org to provide information for people with mental illness. It has been their advocacy for opening up...
African American Women and Mental Health :Why We Don’t Seek Help!
According to a recent study, about 20% of African-Americans might acquire mental illness in their life time. In recent years, a large...
How to Help a Loved One Who is Suicidal
Every 12.3 minutes someone dies by suicide in the United States. This is a frightening statistic, and even more so when you know a loved...
The Passing of Natural Hair Pioneer Titi Branch
Like most Mondays I grabbed my morning herbal tea and sat down at my laptop to begin sifting through emails from the weekend, as my...
Simone Battle
It was Saturday afternoon (September 6th 2014), and I sat in the extremely crowded Atlanta, GA CNN Center having lunch with my mentee...
A Loss to the “Black Girl” Movement: BGS Reaction to Karyn Washington’s Suicide
On April 8th the “Black Girl” empowerment movement lost one of its most dynamic and forceful young sisters, with the passing of Karyn...