The Church Was Never Supposed to Be Milwaukee’s Mental Health System. It Became One Anyway.
With Black men underserved by clinical mental health systems, Milwaukee’s churches have quietly absorbed a role no one assigned them — first responder for pain with nowhere else to go. Marcus Hart on what that role actually requires, and where faith alone runs out of road.
Manning Up Was Never the Flex We Were Told It Was. Black Culture Is Finally Saying So Out Loud.
New reporting on Black men and mental health has sparked a cultural reckoning with the old ‘manning up’ script. Marcus Hart on why the shift toward openness is coming from barbershops and podcasts, not just clinics.