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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Nice to see that Black mental health is finally getting the attention that it deserves. Religion is not the remedy for most.
Damn, damn, damn, James!!!
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ‘MISS.
All caps b/c it’s the friggin’ important.
off-topic: Snoop needs to come to San Francisco and holla at a Diva - I got some big booty ladies I can hook her up with.
about time!
Yay for this cause.
There should be a No More DL convention. Terry McMillan and Dina McGreevey can be salty for as long as they please. I can’t even imagine…
…oh, and that’s not an anti-gay comment. I support the GLBT community. DL men are not included.
snoop is fine as hell…she needs to swing by new york and see me sometime. i love the subject of the book. going to therapy and getting the help you may need to make it in this fucked up world DOES NOT mean you’re weak or crazy.