
Mental Illness is a very taboo topic in the Black Community and so many people who need help don’t know how to access it because of the exposure of its reality. The only way to remove the stigma associated with mental illness is to start conversations within our communities.
Some would argue that mental illness is not a real disease and, in fact, doesn’t exist at all. Each mental disease case has its own type of evidence and can eventually lead to suicide.
Tune in “LIVE” on “Conversations Of A Sistah” with Host Tracy L. Bell as she sit down in the studio with her special guest, Writer and Blogger “Brittany Dickey” (pictured left) for a discussion on her story from “Broken to Bold“. Discussing her journey from attempting suicide to finding peace, joy and good mental health.
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You know the ones, they jump from one relationship to the next without fully healing from the unhealthy relationship they were just in? And “boom” two days or two weeks after a break-up, they’re in a whole new relationship.
It looked powerful, united and victorious as over five (5) Million women (and some men) worldwide and over 1 Million in Washington, D.C., marched, spoke, rallied and made their voices heard on January 21, 2017.

The oldest U.S. slave laws are found in the State of Virginia. There is a publication entitled The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia, volume 2 (1823) by William W. Henning. This publication contains the Virginia Slave Codes. Among these codes is a document, dated October of 1669, which is entitled “An act about the casual killing of slaves”.
