Help for Actual Homeowners
March 23, 2009 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under featured articles, house and home
Michelle Singletary elaborates on the government’s launch of a new website to assist troubled homeowners looking for help. The Making Home Affordable program and accompanying website arranges in one place information on the two-pronged approach of the new initiative.
Black Youths, Depression, and Suicide
February 9, 2009 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under featured articles
I never thought suicide was something that happened in our community. I had never known anyone who had committed suicide. Everyone died the old fashioned ways: natural, accidental, or violent. And depression wasn’t something my family ever talked about either. “Life is hard. Deal with it,” was the advice we took from our elders. After all, therapy was for the rich and weak, who did not look like us. I wasn’t ready or eager to be wrong. Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Mary Mitchell, shatters the myths of black youths, depression, and suicide – and implores us to teach our children its okay to seek help.
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