“Strong but Weary”: Black silence and Black Women mental health

It’s National Mental Health Month and we’ve celebrated Mother’s Day. Black women are in a State of Emergency, leading with a diagnosis rate three times higher than any other ethnic group and gender. What makes the Black woman’s experience different? How have we as a culture coped with these experiences and what reality have we created? It’s time to take accountability in our expectations of Black women and change the way we interact with the world