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When Our Sisters Are Hurting…
This blog post is one of many being featured as part of APA’s Mental Health Month Blog Day. By Alfiee Breland-Noble, PhD, MHSc (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center)...
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“Hate Being Sober”: Lessons from Rap Music to Address Substance Use among...
By Cendrine Robinson, MS (Doctoral Candidate in Medical and Clinical Psychology) Chicago native, rapper Chief Keef’s song Hate Being Sober (Cozart, Jackson, Thomaz & Pittman, 2012) has over 10...
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Counting Down Our Top 5 Blog Posts
By Efua Andoh (Public Interest Communications Staff) This is our 150th post and given that it is the end of the year, we would like to reflect on our blogging journey so far. When Public Interest...
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5 Ways Black Churches are Engaging in HIV Prevention
By Terrinieka Williams Powell, PhD (Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) The CDC notes that African Americans have the most severe burden of HIV of all...
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In Case You Missed It – April 24, 2015
Welcome to In Case You Missed It, a weekly roundup of news articles related to issues of psychology, health and mental health, social justice and the public interest that you may be interested in. We...
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In Case You Missed It – May 22, 2015 – Racial double standard in Waco...
In this week’s In Case You Missed It (a roundup of articles related to psychology, health, mental health and social justice collated from multiple news and commentary websites) we cover the racial...
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What Makes People Gay (An Update), Ending Solitary Confinement in California...
Welcome back to In Case You Missed It (our weekly roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice issues from multiple news and commentary websites). This week, we...
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The Mad and Unhappy Place of Public Education for Black and Brown Children in...
By Dawn X. Henderson, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Winston-Salem State University) Some of the lines in the classic 1982 song, Mad World, capture the lived experience of many black and...
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Why Does HIV Impact African American Women Harder Than Everyone Else and What...
By Leo Rennie, MPA (Senior Legislative & Federal Affairs Officer, APA Public Interest) February 7th marked the annual observance of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The day is an...
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How Black Boys Turn Blue: The Effects of Masculine Ideology on Same-Gender...
By Courtland Douglas (Psychology Graduate Student, Texas Southern University) & Erlanger Turner, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Houston-Downtown) What Do We Mean by the...
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