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 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.
The VA Says Suicide Screening Rates Are at a Record High. So Is the Suicide Rate. Both Things Are True.
The VA is screening more veterans for suicide risk than ever before — and the veteran suicide rate still ticked up to its highest level since 2018. Marcus Hart, a combat veteran himself, unpacks why better screening and worse outcomes can both be true at once, and what the data says actually saves lives.
The Black Men’s Mental Health Movement Is Finally Building Infrastructure, Not Just Awareness
A wave of Black Men’s Mental Health Conferences and a new Jed Foundation partnership with Alpha Phi Alpha suggest this Minority Mental Health Awareness Month is different — Marcus Hart looks at what’s actually being built.
The Silent Epidemic Among Black Men Isn’t New — What’s New Is Who’s Finally Talking About It
Deaths of despair among Black Americans nearly tripled in under a decade, and only a handful of the country’s mental health providers are Black. During Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Marcus Hart looks at why the crisis stayed invisible for so long — and what’s actually starting to change it.