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When natural hair icon Titi Branch, co-founder of the wildly successful hair-care line Miss Jessie’s, committed suicide in December 2014, shocked supporters were left devastated.…

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Why are we medicating so many of our young African-American males for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? Recent studies show that there’s a 70 percent increase…

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Some mental health experts are beginning to grow concerned that the murderous behavior of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is stigmatizing mental illness. Lubitz, according to…

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A 32-year-old Long Island, New York bank clerk, who was confined to a mental ward for eight days after saying President Obama follows her on…

As police look into the death of an unarmed Air Force veteran killed by a police officer, activists are speaking out about police tactics in Atlanta.…

Since its inception, Hip-Hop has been a source of stress relief for both the artists and the listener. Recently, a pair of scientists at Cambridge University in England launched a study to connect the link between Hip Hop music and mental illness treatment. “There is so much more to hip-hop than the public realizes,” Becky Inkster, […]

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New York Daily News Exclusive: Two FDNY EMTs say they stopped four NYPD officers from beating a mentally ill patient while he was on a…

Everybody stresses. It’s just a fact of life. However, while a little stress can actually help keep you focused, too much of it doesn’t do…

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  1. Don’t Do Depression Alone! This week the media world mourns the death of Karyn Washington, the 22-year-old writer of the popular motivational blog…

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Karyn Washington, the popular creator of For Brown Girls, a movement to uplift and empower brown-hued Black women, has died from an apparent suicide. She…

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During the latest probation hearing for singer Chris Brown, doctors testified that the troubled singer’s past history of violent behavior is due to previously undiagnosed bi-polar…

  When out at industry events, I’ve come across actors who have said it takes a smart actor to play a dumb person on-screen. So…