Suicide is up among Black Americans. We need to talk about it.
From NPR.
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Suicide is a public health crisis for the country — but that crisis is becoming acute in the Black community. Black suicide rates are climbing, increasing more than 50% over about the past 10 years according to CDC data. And the suicide rates among Black youth are increasing particularly dramatically.
NPR’s Michel Martin hosted a Morning Edition live event called Going There: A Matter of Life and Death that brought together a panel of clinicians, lawmakers and people who have lived with the pain of the suicide epidemic, and mental health struggles in the Black community, in front of a live audience.
The conversation was an attempt to try to find out why this crisis is happening, how it is affecting communities, and most importantly, what can be done about it.
Martin, whose brother took his own life on May 10, 2010, said that suicide in the Black community is a conversation that needs to be had.
“I’ve come to understand that our silence is not protecting us,” said Martin.
NPR’s Michel Martin hosted a Morning Edition live event called Going There: A Matter of Life and Death that brought together a panel of clinicians, lawmakers and people who have lived with the pain of the suicide epidemic, and mental health struggles in the Black community, in front of a live audience.
The conversation was an attempt to try to find out why this crisis is happening, how it is affecting communities, and most importantly, what can be done about it.
Martin, whose brother took his own life on May 10, 2010, said that suicide in the Black community is a conversation that needs to be had.
“I’ve come to understand that our silence is not protecting us,” said Martin.
