In the first of this two-part special edition, we examine how racism, ill-gotten attitudes towards mental illness, and heavy-handed law enforcement continue to devastate Black Americans.
The holiday season brings out my darkest moods. But in a year where trauma overwrote trauma, I finally became free.
As a subscriber, you deserve to know what my values are. So let's begin there.
Let's start at the beginning. What's wrong with the term "mental health", why is "sanity" better, and what does that mean for you, my reader?