By Editorial Board of The New York Times — 2018
A new volume offers insight into the personal and political life of one of the 20th century’s most influential freedom fighters.
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For the owners of Magnolia Wellness, LLC, mental health is more than just a brain issue. Rather, say Gizelle Tircuit and her daughter Janelle Posey-Green, emotional wellness goes far beyond what’s inside someone’s head, encompassing their body, their community, their culture and more.
I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.
Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
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While individuals of all racial-ethnic minority groups are at risk of experiencing racial discrimination and racial trauma, Black Americans are especially at risk, as anti-Black racism is individual, systemic, and historical.
In each generation we have to experience the haunting ritual of a Black family grieving in public over the loss of a loved one at the hands of the police.
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