Black men and boys must continuously confront the negative stereotypes attached with Black masculinity, and this can impact their mental health.
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Research found that police officers killed more than 30,000 people from 1980 to 2018 – 17,000 more than official federal data suggests.
In the aftermath of Adam Toledo’s death, police and a prosecutor framed the incident as a confrontation with an armed male holding a gun. Should reporters have been so quick to accept that version?
We need to clarify the role of the police, to promote a more justice-oriented style of police leadership and to put in place long-term mechanisms of accountability to support and sustain change.
If you’re American – regardless of the color of your skin – racism structures how you think. Changing the system should change these implicit biases.
Police killings of black men gain widespread attention, but black men’s life-and-death issues are ignored on a daily basis, a physician who studies health gaps explains.
Diversity among officers lags behind the general population. But is police culture a greater problem when it comes to combating excessive force?
Police are almost always the first responders in cases of mental health crisis. Too often these encounters turn bad, even deadly. But police were never meant to be in charge of US mental health care.
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Florida Gulf Coast University
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Senior Lecturer, Center for Study of Human Health, Emory University
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Researcher at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College
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Professor of Health Metric Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
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Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Manitoba
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Research Manager at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington