While it’s important to prioritize mental health for communities of color every day of the year, it’s especially important right now given a number of current factors (and these are just a few) that have a devastating impact: The continued murder of Black people at the hands of police, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and too many others Increasing evidence that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting Black people, in no small part due to systemic inequities in the U.S., from health care to employment access Anti-racist protests across the nation that are met with militarized police presence The replaying of traumatic video footage of police brutality against Black bodies in the media and the emotional labor of engaging on social.
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