Stress impacts cognitive decline. Older African-Americans with higher levels of perceived stress have more rapid declines in global cognition than those with lower levels. (Am J of Geriatric Psychiatry) I can only imagine the effect of the stress of racism, over a lifetime.
Read MoreWhen you’re going through traumatic events, you may know that they are wrong, but you may not actually realize that they are traumatic……cause it’s normal in your family/community.
Read MoreAnd, while the laws have been changed, the hearts have not. These descendants of the enslavers have carried this grudge for hundreds of years and like the cicadas that go underground, they emerge every so many years, to devour their prey.
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