Free, But Never Well
We celebrate the date but rarely tell the truth under it: emancipation freed the body and abandoned its care. The first health system for freed Black people was starved, then shut down.
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Today, at the close of Black Men's Mental Health Month, melaninblissmedia.com goes live. A special launch edition of The Melanin Memo.
The Cure We Can't Reach
A drug can finally slow Alzheimer's — but only if you're caught early. Black Americans face double the risk and later diagnoses. The cure was built around a door we're too often locked out of.
When the Hospital Is the Trigger
PTSD Awareness Month points at war and disaster. We’re naming the trigger no one does: the clinic that didn’t believe our pain. The exhaustion you carry isn’t weakness — it’s documented.
The Privilege We Almost Forgot to Feel
Four former presidents shared one stage on Chicago’s South Side. The gratitude that followed wasn’t partisan — it was civic, and overdue.
When the Hospital Is the Trigger: Black Mental Health & PTSD Month
MB Original Content
The Word Reached Them Two and a Half Years Late
What Juneteenth means when the system still delays the news
Credentials Are Care
A reality-TV life coach built a national following as “Dr.” then admitted she isn’t licensed.
4 Years Later | I Survived & Thriving...Still
5.29.2022
Welcome The Melanin Memo. Here's What's New.
MB has grown. The Memo has grown with it. A note on what's changed, what's coming, and why.
BMHW26 | They Can Ask You to Leave
What the Piedmont Henry Hospital case got right, what it got wrong, and what every Black woman needs to know before she walks into that delivery room
What They Should Have Told You Before 35: Reproductive Health Info Black Women Deserve
The conversation about Black women and maternal health usually starts with a mortality statistic. Black women are three times more likely to