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Mental Health Awareness in the Black Community (Part I)



Inform Your Mind, Fuel Your Spirit is a panel discussion about mental health awareness in the black community moderated by Terrie Williams author of A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues. Williams is also founder of The Terrie Williams Agency and The Stay Strong Foundation.

Williams is joined by Alvin F. Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and author of Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African Americans; Altha J. Stewart, president of the American Psychiatric Foundation and former president of Black Psychiatrists of America; Rhonda Ross, a writer, vocalist, and Emmy-nominated actress; and Tracy Tyrone Moore, the president of the Black Men’s Forum at Harvard University.

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