It s Mental Health Awareness Month, and this May especially, Litehouse Wellness continues to put the men in mental health.
The group started as a way to reach out to Black men in Dallas; participants in the yoga sessions called broga carry some form of pain or trauma, which isn t unusual. As the organization notes on its website, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that Black men in America live seven years less than other races on average and suicide is the third leading cause of death among Black men.
Sherri Doucette, a doula, yoga and meditation instructor, founded Litehouse Wellness in 2017, almost two years after losing her husband to gastro-esophageal cancer. Doucette and her husband, Baba, got further in touch with their spirituality and holistic living following his diagnosis in 2015. It was his dream to go into communities of color and help men get more serious about their health and talk about what’s on their minds in a safe space. He never
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot grants 1-on-1 interviews with only Black and Brown journalists It s time for the newsrooms to do better and build teams that reflect the make-up of our city, she stated.
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Chicago’s top elected leader is making a unique decision:
Lori Lightfoot will grant media requests to the city’s press outlets marking her midway point as mayor, but she will exclusively interview with journalists of color.
Mayor Lightfoot made the announcement public in a five-part Twitter thread yesterday, writing, “I ran to break up the status quo that was failing so many. That isn’t just in City Hall. It’s a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI or Native American.”
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