Hey King, How Is Your Mental Health, How Can I Help?

Black men’s mental health is more complex than statistics or clinical diagnoses indicate, according to subject matter experts. Because of structural racism and Black men’s unique history in this country, their mental health and treatment are intimately tied to factors such as implicit bias on the part of medical providers, high poverty rates, and low access to quality psychological and psychiatric services.  Black men are even more likely than White men to endorse aspects of traditional masculine ideology, such as the need to act tough and in control and to avoid emotional expression.

Today let’s give grace and space as we give the men in our lives the platform to express themselves!

The host and producer is Lawanda Chambers