Suicides are up among Black adolescents. Sherry Molock, a clinical psychologist and ordained minister, believes Black churches could be their salvation.
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<ul> <li><strong><em>New </em></strong><strong>Lancet Psychiatry</strong><strong><em> Series highlights the overwhelming evidence for the role racism plays in mental health disparities among Black people living in the USA. </em></strong></li> <li><strong><em>Improving the mental well-being of Black Americans requires acknowledging and confronting systemic racism in the US political, social, and healthcare systems, and the long history of dehumanisation, oppression, and violence that Black people living in the USA have suffered.</em></strong></li> <li><strong><em>The Series underscores the need for Black sociologists, anthropologists, scientists, researchers, physicians, clinicians, and citizens to set the priorities and provide perspectives.</em></strong></li> <li><em><strong>The authors call for a communit
/PRNewswire/ A series of literature reviews publishing online December 13 in The Lancet Psychiatry journal highlight the large body of evidence on the role.