Parents can help their Black and Hispanic teens handle online racism by talking it through, but monitoring internet use can backfire. By Dr. Alvin ThomasAssociate Professor of Human Development and Family StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison By…
For Black and Indigenous communities, it takes more than therapy and medicine to tackle mental illness. We need a holistic approach. By Jasmin JosephWriter and researcher from Yonkers, New York…
Every family has secrets. I spent the past few years reporting about racial violence in Sikeston, Missouri. Interviewing Black families there helped me uncover my family’s traumatic past, too. By…
These people are fighting the good fight because LGBTQ+ Muslims shouldn’t have to sacrifice one identity at the expense of the other. By Shaima ShamdeenMultimedia journalist A global movement is…
Sahaj Kaur Kohli explores how people who belong to more than one culture grapple with love, identity, family, and therapy. By Gisselle MedinaLatino investigative and multimedia journalist As a child of…
At 13, I was into chess and Dungeons and Dragons. That was the year I hit my growth spurt—and learned what it is to be seen not as a child,…
‘My Hair Is Not…’ is a natural-hair campaign that brings awareness to the microaggressions and discrimination that Black people experience due to their hair. This photo story explores the experiences of…
Barbers in the South are training as first responders to assist the men in their chairs with their mental health concerns. By Celeste Hamilton DennisSolutions-focused journalist, essayist, and fiction writer Amid…
Understanding why many Asian Americans don’t seek mental health care—like stigma and lack of culturally appropriate resources—is essential to providing effective support. By Grace GallettiGraduate journalism studentUC Berkeley Content warning: mention…
Native women revitalize ceremony to resist the legacy of patriarchy that supports a long-entrenched history of abuse. By Mary Annette PemberJournalist and photographer Native American women and girls are two…
