Depression affects millions of us, and while we are slowly opening up about mental health issues and beginning to banish the stigma that surrounds them, it is critically important to keep open the conversation to foster understanding and empathy for those who may be struggling.  

“I am desperate to meet new friends. I’m lonely and going through the hardest period of my life. I’ll sit on the stairs in front of the town hall from 2pm to 8pm. I have black pants and a North Face bag on.” – written December 7th 2016. Late last year I wrote this message on an app called Jodel, a

It's amazing how marriage works. The joining of two people in love seems so simple; yet the blending of family traditions, dynamics and even deficits is often so difficult. My marriage is basically picture-perfect, but my mental illness has made for a few bumps in the road and has left me ...

In her July 18 speech before the NAACP, Hillary Clinton spoke briefly about the problem of implicit bias: bias that operates on an unconscious and automatic level. To solve the problem of police brutality, she said, we must actively "root out" the knee-jerk attitudes that inform our day-to-day ...

MILD SPOILERS FOR GREENLEAF FOLLOWAmong the timely topics Oprah Winfrey's new show Greenleaf tackles is being black and gay in church, which, as many black LBGT Americans know, is not always a safe space to be oneself. There's a palpable ask-but-don't-tell quality to the faith experience that ...