1,810 Black people aged five to 17 who had died by suicide between 2003 and 2017. They found that suicides rose over-time during that period among Black youth of all ages and that the biggest increases occurred among teens aged 15 to 17. More than 2.5 times as many Black boys died by suicide as Black girls, but the annual increase among girls—6.6 percent—was more than twice what it was for boys.
With everything going on in Black America, there needs to be a space where Black people can let go and come back to themselves. The Black family is one of the most important social structures in the Black community. Beyond the roles and responsibilities imposed on us by capitalist America, there is magic in the
e and Charlamagne opened up a real space to talk about the triggers for mental illness and the ways in which black men, in particular, are navigating it
