Guest Contributor: Dequan Starnes (Q-Starnes) Recording Artist What does Black Mental Wellness mean to you? Mental wellness means so much to me because I just think us meaning (our people) in general has went through so many things as a race and overcame so much I don't think we take the time to actually self evaluate ourselves and focus in on our mental health the way we should. If you look around at all the things we've been through as a whole anybody would know we've been

Guest Contributor: Karah N. Palmer Research Coordinator at the National Center for School Mental Health What does Black Mental Wellness mean to you? To me, Black Mental Wellness means embracing our full humanity and learning to be well, which is really about caring for our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health. It is also about unlearning negative messages about ourselves and others. In the unlearning, we make room to explore and create a world in which we can be