When rapper Big Sean went public in 2019 with his struggles with depression, which he’d been dealing with, along with anxiety, since he was a teenager, he hadn’t intended to become an advocate for mental health awareness. He was simply tired of portraying that everything in his life was great when it wasn’t.
“I was just being honest,” he tells ESSENCE. “I was just keeping it real because I was tired of not keeping it real. I was tired of pretending I was a machine and everything was cool and being politically correct or whatever. I just was like, I’m a just say how I feel.”
Big Sean And His Mom Talk New Mental Health Series, Being Open About His Depression And Anxiety: “I Was Tired Of Not Keeping It Real” Essence 4/30/2021 When rapper I was just being honest, he tells ESSENCE. I was just keeping it real because I was tired of not keeping it real. I was tired of pretending I was a machine and everything was cool and being politically correct or whatever. I just was like, I m a just say how I feel.
His revelation, as a major star in hip-hop, was a brave one, though. It helped spark conversations about how people cope when it comes to their mental health, particularly Black men. Now he s taking things a step further in the hopes of helping everyone better deal with mental illness, and he s doing so with help from his mom, educator Myra Anderson.
VH1 News Mamas are the best.
Some of the biggest artists in the game
Eminem,
Mariah Carey, and
Justin Bieber, to name a few were raised by single mothers. So now we’re stealing the light from these major artists to shine it on the single mothers who raised them in honor of VH1’s upcoming
Monday, May 7th at 9 PM ET/PT, but it’s never too early to start showing respect to hard-working moms.
Find out which of your favorite artists were raised by single moms in the list below.
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera’s parents, Shelly Kearns and Fausto Aguilera, split when the singer was seven years old. Aguilera “rarely” saw her father after the split, according to US. “To remember the chaos that [my mother] went through, the abuse, I don’t know how she did it,” Aguilera said in an interview. “But it’s amazing how much you can trick your mind into surviving when you have to.”
Charlottesville, Virginia activists react to Derek Chauvinâs guilty verdict
Charlottesville, Virginia activists react to Derek Chauvinâs guilty verdict By Max Marcilla | April 20, 2021 at 10:00 PM EDT - Updated April 21 at 12:06 AM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Hours after Judge Peter Cahill read the guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, central Virginia community members and activists shared how they felt in that moment.
The feelings ranged from relief to angst, to a desire to continue the pursuit of justice - and often, all three.
âMy initial reaction was to do the one thing that George Floyd could not do, and it was just to take a big, deep breath and exhale,â said Myra Anderson, a community activist.
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