They experience another emotion as well, one so at odds with the image of the strong black woman that it seldom enters the conversation: sadness. Banks is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law ...

Armed with cheap disposable cameras, she started snapping photos of other Black women and nonbinary folks ... and unearth the root causes of her depression. Her mental illness made her put up ...

Photographer Polly Irungu wanted to find a way to spotlight and support Black women photographers ... I spent the year in a deep depression, although I didn't know it at the time.

At a time when Black women disproportionately face more domestic violence, three survivors speak about finding joy after ...

Getty Images The survey found women (23.8%) and adults 18 to ... Furthermore, lifetime depression rates among black and Hispanic adults have now surpassed white respondents. White respondents ...

it can feel like there is simply no room in this world for Black women not to be okay. Grief and depression When discussing mental health in the Black community, grief is a similarly common ...

“I didn’t feel pretty and did not like taking photos in my wheelchair ... and colorism may make the prevalence of depression and anxiety in Black women even higher,” she says.