More Black Men Are Walking Into Therapy Offices. The System Behind That Door Still Isn’t Ready for Them.
A real cultural shift is underway — more Black men choosing therapy over silence. But a shortage of culturally competent Black providers means the door is opening faster than the system behind it can staff up.
The Numbers on Black Men’s Mental Health Are Getting Worse. The Silence Around Them Doesn’t Have To.
Suicide, overdose, and alcohol-related deaths are climbing among Black men even as more public figures talk openly about therapy — a reminder that visibility and access are two very different problems, and only one of them is improving fast enough.
The Suicide Numbers Nobody in My Community Wants to Say Out Loud
Black Americans’ suicide death rate has climbed 53% in a decade, with young Black men bearing the sharpest edge of the crisis — and Black veterans face nearly double the PTSD rate of their white counterparts. Marcus Hart on why this crisis stays hidden and what actually moves the needle.
The Conference Circuit Quietly Building What Black Men’s Mental Health Care Actually Needs
Every July, the culture runs its familiar cycle: a hashtag, a handful of op-eds, a wave of “Black men need to talk about their mental health” commentary, and then, by August, silence again until next year’s awareness push. I’ve written versions of that critique myself. But something different has been building this year that deserves […]
We Keep Calling It Awareness Month. Black Men Are Calling It Survival.
July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and the data on Black men is getting worse, not better. Marcus Hart on why naming the crisis isn’t the same as building the off-ramp.
Minority Mental Health Awareness Month Keeps Getting Marked. Black Men Keep Getting Missed.
July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and the data on Black men keeps pointing the same direction — rising suicide and overdose deaths, and a treatment gap driven less by access than by trust. Marcus Hart looks at what a fraternity-and-clinician partnership gets right that decades of awareness campaigns haven’t.
The VA Just Bet on Psychedelics for PTSD. As a Combat Veteran, Here’s What I Actually Want to Know.
A new HHS-VA partnership will fast-track research into psychedelic-assisted therapy for PTSD, potentially reaching over a million veterans. Marcus Hart, a combat veteran, weighs the promise against the questions the announcement doesn’t answer.
The Black Men Choosing Therapy Over Silence – And Why That’s the Real Story This Summer
From Louisville to Atlanta, Black men are filling conference rooms to talk openly about mental health for the first time in their lives. Marcus Hart on why this quiet cultural shift matters more than any awareness-month hashtag – and what’s still standing in the way.
It’s BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month. The Data on Black Veterans Should Scare Us Into Action.
Black veterans deployed in combat develop PTSD at 22%, compared to 14.1% for white veterans — and face steeper barriers to care. Marcus Hart, a combat veteran himself, on what’s actually driving that gap and what community-level solutions look like beyond another awareness month.
The VA and HHS Just Announced a Psychedelic Therapy Partnership for Veterans. Black Veterans Should Read the Fine Print.
A new federal partnership will fast-track research into psychedelic treatments for veteran PTSD. That’s genuinely promising — and it lands on top of a documented racial gap in care that no new drug pipeline fixes by itself.