News Items – September 1, 2022

Lourdes Delores Follins is a member:Why you should stop complimenting people for being ‘resilient’NPRFor example, take the “strong Black woman” stereotype. According to Professor Inger Burnett-Zeigler, author of Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women, internalizing that trope “can often interfere with [Black women] acknowledging their mental health challenges and then going on to get the mental health treatment.&rdquo