Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist
- Words cannot contain my admiration for Terrie Williams, a sister who has put her pain on “front street” with her book, Black Pain – It Just Looks Like We Aren’t Hurting (Schribner, 2008) and reminded all of us that depression is not a crime, but an illness.
Her foundation, the Stay Strong Foundation (www.staystrongfoundation.com) has been committed to lifting up the matter of depression and teaching us to treat the illness as just that, a source of healing, not of shame.
This week, while the nation is enraptured in inaugural euphoria, Terrie Williams and her organization are a stark reminder that life goes on. On Thursday, January 15, on Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, she is holding an event in New York that will focus on the issue of depression – what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like. There’s an Internet video that gives you a taste of the movement and an indication of the folk who are supporting it.
