045 Black People Die By Suicide Too: Breaking the Silence

Black People Die By Suicide Too

About this episode:

Ms. T-Kea Blackman, MPS, CPRS, RPS, is a nationally recognized, multi-award-winning peer recovery specialist, social entrepreneur, speaker, and author who joins us to discuss the rising rate of suicide in the Black community and the stigma that keeps it hidden. Drawing on her own lived experience of carrying suicidal thoughts since middle school — while excelling academically and personally — she shares how she transformed private pain into public purpose through her nonprofit, Black People Die By Suicide Too.

About our guest Ms. Blackman:

- Nationally recognized, multi-award-winning peer recovery specialist

- Social entrepreneur, speaker, and author

- Graduate of Howard University and Georgetown University

- Currently pursuing her doctorate

- Avid 10K runner and co-founder of a business

- Founder of the nonprofit Black People Die By Suicide Too

What we discuss:

- The rising rate of suicide in the Black community — and why it's under-discussed