Center for Multicultural and Global Mental Health at WJC

10/24/2025

“You can’t understand how powerfully racist that question is, can you?”

“You can’t understand how powerfully racist that question is, can you?” — Toni MorrisonBorn in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison grew up surrounded by music, st...

10/22/2025

10/18/2025

If the government shutdown continues, millions of low-income people are at risk of losing access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

10/13/2025

10/13/2025

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day.

10/13/2025

Celebrating the resilience and rich cultures of Indigenous peoples’ today and every day.

10/13/2025

Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

10/13/2025

JUST IN: After two years of war in Gaza, all living hostages have now been freed and are in Israel. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4nlVud3

10/13/2025

More than a decade ago, the Emmy-nominated documentary Poor Kids portrayed poverty in America as it’s rarely seen: through the eyes of children.

07/11/2025

On September 2, 1885, one of the most gruesome episodes of racial terror in American history took place in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A white mob formed and took a vote; they decided that the Chinese residents should be expelled. A group of 75 men began making their way toward Chinatown. The mob halted just outside the Chinese quarter, and a committee of three men delivered a message: residents had an hour to pack up their belongings and go. But barely half an hour later the rioters invaded.

In the morning, the full extent of the atrocity became clear. The flat expanse where the Chinatown once stood had been transformed into a smoldering hellscape. Bodies were found in the burned-out cellars, often clustered together. Some people had draped wet cloths over their heads and burrowed into the earthen walls, trying to escape the smoke and flames. Hogs feasted on a co**se that they had dragged from the ruins. “Today for the first time in a good many years, there is not a Chinaman in Rock Springs,” the town’s newspaper proclaimed. “Nothing but heaps of smoking ruins mark the spot where Chinatown stood.” Read about the long-forgotten massacre in Rock Springs, and the archeologists who are working to unearth its history: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/e7uvij

07/10/2025

The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. “People on the right, they don’t realize they’re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.” https://nyti.ms/44FhJTP