Black Men Are Finally Talking About Anxiety Out Loud. The System Still Isn’t Built to Listen.
A wave of Black men writing and speaking publicly about anxiety and therapy marks a real cultural shift. But the treatment-access gap behind that shift hasn’t moved nearly as fast — and naming the shift without naming the gap is its own kind of dishonesty.
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 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.