The recent killings of unarmed individuals such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Tony McDade have sparked a national conversation about the treatment of Black people — and other ...

Licensed psychologist and founder of Therapy for Black Girls, an online community aimed at eliminating mental health stigma, providing resources and finding ways to discuss mental health that are ...

I write this from a northern suburb of Chicago as I finish my third week of lockdown in response to the novel coronavirus. Our governor has ordered another 30 days of shelter in place. The experience ...

In my previous post, I introduced the Stigma Effect as unintended consequences made by progressive advocates seeking to right social injustice, but doing so with errors. Two examples were provided ...

—To clarify the role that stigma plays in the mental health and quality of life in people with MS, researchers conducted an MS-specific retrospective data review. They found that stigma was associated ...

Eighty-six percent of SNAP benefits go to households with a child, an elderly adult, or a person with disabilities.” That fact – driven home by anti-hunger advocates – underlines the stakes as new ...

New research shows that weight stigma—and not weight itself—has the biggest impact on mental health and healthy behaviors in the years after weight-loss surgery. Researchers found that patients who ...

In late June, with the reversal of Roe v. Wade leaving the future of abortion access in Tennessee uncertain, Daniel A. Collier faced a dilemma. The 42-year-old assistant professor of higher education ...

The recent killings of unarmed individuals have sparked a national conversation about the treatment of Black people -- and other minorities -- in the United States. The recent killings of unarmed ...