America’s racial reckoning is putting a spotlight on Black mental health

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America’s racial reckoning is putting a spotlight on Black mental

Manasota View September 28, 2020

The pandemic, economic anxiety, and reignited fights on racist structures have created a “mental health tsunami” in the Black community. By Doha Madani As a child, Reginald Howard struggled with destructive visions, moments where he imagined destroying the shelves at the corner store or pushing another child down, but when he tried to identify what was […]Read More

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Tia Mowry-Hardrict Says That Parents Should Begin Teaching Their Kids

Manasota View September 16, 2020

Tia Mowry-Hardrict is encouraging parents to begin teaching their children about racism at home from an early age. “It starts at home,” Mowry-Hardrict said on the premiere episode of the Dear Media podcast Being Bümo. “What people have to understand is this behavior is learned, so it’s about communication. It’s about bringing awareness. It’s about […]Read More

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Criminal Justice Conversation

Manasota View September 14, 2020

The 111th NAACP National Convention begins today, September 13. Millions across the country have made it known that enough is enough – We Are Done Dying. Social activists, industry leaders, and public servants will join thousands of NAACP members and supporters in making an action plan to improve, protect, and change our communities.Join us from Sunday, […]Read More

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2020 VIRTUAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON

Manasota View August 29, 2020

The 2020 Virtual March on Washington, taking place August 27-28, 2020 on the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, will be a one of a kind event driving the movement from protest to policy to power. RT @NAACP Tonight, the 2020 Virtual March on Washington continues with a rousing call to vote from #FLOTUS @MichelleObama. We’re going #NonstopToNovember! […]Read More

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Public defender: I worked with Kamala Harris. She was the

Manasota View August 12, 2020

Niki Solis Opinion contributor There has been much talk about the time Sen. Kamala Harris spent as a prosecutor. As a public defender for 24 years, I examined, critiqued, and battled Harris when she was the San Francisco district attorney. And more often than not, Harris and I were on opposite sides. Having had this experience, I […]Read More

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They came from Chicago’s West Side to become the nation’s

Manasota View August 3, 2020

By Timothy Bella On the long walks to and from school, Arshay Cooper thought God existed everywhere except the West Side of Chicago. So Cooper wasn’t going to let one of his teammates on the nation’s first all-black high school rowing team walk alone. For three years in the late ’90s, Cooper and Alvin Ross navigated […]Read More

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James Baldwin’s faith in America Eddie Glaude Jr. on why

Manasota View July 30, 2020

By Sean Illing If I could bring back from the dead any American writer and ask them to describe the country they see today, it would be James Baldwin, the great 20th-century essayist and novelist. I don’t know what the Black experience is like in America, but I can say that no writer made it as […]Read More

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Mother-Daughter Duo Yara Shahidi, Keri Shahidi Launch Production Company The

Manasota View July 30, 2020

Actress Yara Shahidi is making power moves in the realm of entertainment. According to Deadline, the grown-ish star recently co-founded a production company and inked a deal with ABC Studios. Shahidi’s new venture—dubbed 7th Sun—was created in partnership with her mother Keri Shahidi. The core of the company’s mission is to amplify the narratives of underrepresented groups. The mother-daughter duo says […]Read More

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From Championships to First Crushes — This New Book is

Manasota View July 30, 2020

Here’s the synopsis: Being an eighth-grade young man isn’t just complicated but can be confusing as well. It’s hard enough maintaining straight A’s, being a great basketball player, and trying to maintain a solid social life…now you add girls on top of all those things and you are bound to end up more confused than […]Read More

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Black Americans arm themselves in response to pandemic, protests

Manasota View July 27, 2020

When coronavirus lockdowns spread nationwide in March, millions of Americans flocked to their local grocery stores and wholesale markets to stock up for what would become months stuck at home. Black Americans did the same, but some had one addendum to their shopping list: a firearm. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been […]Read More