Tag: mental-health
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King’s Treasure
Digital Archive Holds Untold History of African American Mental Health By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine Resplendent in his trademark sport coat and bow tie, Louis Armstrong plays a trumpet for a large gathering of patients underneath a grove of trees outside of Central State Hospital, the world’s first African American psychiatric hospital in Petersburg,…
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The Long Way Home: For Octavio Martinez, all roads to mental health equity led back to Texas
By Jessica Sinn • October 15, 2020 Growing up in a large military family, Dr. Octavio Martinez and his four younger brothers didn’t settle in one town for very long. But there was one place that always felt like home: their grandmother’s rural East Austin farmhouse. “I remember those summer days playing football out in the open, surrounded…
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