“Black People Die by Suicide Too.” It’s a sobering statement. A message T-Kea Blackman says, like many, her family avoided those kinds of talks.
“I always heard black people don’t kill themselves,” T-Kea said.
However, with suicide rates on the rise across the country over the last decade, specifically with black youth, that statement couldn’t be further from the truth. T-Kea, a Howard graduate, eventually came face to face with that reality after getting her master’s degree at Georgetown…