I didn’t think I’d ever see Terry McMillan, Felicia “Snoop” Pearson (The Wire), and John Amos in a picture together, but here they are. McMillan, Pearson, and Amos, along with Ruby Dee, Mo’Nique, Al Sharpton and others, got together in NYC yesterday for the launch of the Stay Strong Foundation’s “Healing Starts With Us,” a campaign to call attention to emotional and mental health issues in the black community. The impetus was Terrie M. Williams’ new book, Black Pain: It Only Looks Like We’re Not Hurting, about the author’s struggle with depression and the stigma surrounding mental health problems in the black community.

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