A once-segregated mental hospital tells the larger story of Black mental health in America

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A once-segregated mental hospital tells the larger story of Black mental health in America


For most of its history, Crownsville state hospital was the only hospital in Maryland treating Black patients, but the conditions in Crownsville made it more likely patients would die there than go home. In Antonia Hylton’s new book “Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum,” she tells the story of Crownsville, and how race and…

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  1. this girls is not old enough to know anything from back then so all she is doing is repeating what some told her or she read like we all can do for ourselves! at least we will get all the facts not half or some distorted version of the facts, you guys see the black democrats who want reparations, ended up having an all white great III grandfather, lol as most of you do, the percentage is extremely high that you come form a white descendent, like 80% of all African American are not of African decent but white, and i doesn't matter to me either way, your all Americans now and id have anyone of your backs, , but learn some truth, it really does set you free.

  2. Ali, I love your program. Thank you for centering diverse voices and always spotlighting banned books. As a writer and reader, this is a tremendously important topic. It’s also a troubling indicator of our culture. I look forward to reading Antonia’s book! Ordering today. ❤️

  3. I’m not a black man who spent his youth and best years fighting for black America anymore. Now I Identify as a white woman. This way in my new existence black women won’t backstab me.

  4. I was on the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia in the Dept. of Psychiatry. That was 45 years ago. We had residents from around the world. We had residents of all major religions.

    We had no American Blacks. We could not recruit any.

    An Historically Black College was directly across the street from my office. Paine College was founded 1882 with first classes in 1884. My friend and colleague on the Paine College faculty was historian Leslie J. Pollard, Ph.D. He is the author of, “Segregated Doctoring: Black Physicians in Augusta Georgia, 1902 – 1952” (2018 Palmetto Publishing Group). He selected that time period as it included the core years of the “Jim Crow Era.” He has meticulously documented how American Negros, AKA Afro-American, AKA Black, AKA many derogatory words, were systematically blocked, and then suppressed in education, legal representation, and medical care. The AMA contributed greatly.

    This is a strong recommendation of his book.

  5. lol How has integration benefitted White people?
    It’s rhetorical of course, but the assumption is that in today’s post World War ll order, anything bad for White people, is somehow a moral good.

  6. BLack mental health is going to get much much worse. Congressional Black caucus is on the European pharmaceutical payroll. That's right, the drug Ozempic is coming to the hood. Clever, because the FDA will never touch anything supported by the CBC, ya know all that racism stuff! How about that for a Medicaid sacred cash cow!! Doctors? Oh yeah, they are on the payroll too!!

  7. 😂😂😂did yal know blacks where good enough to fight in the civil war but weren't allowed to hold rank😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂yeah the North was less racist than the south at the tine 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  8. Should be writing a book on how modern black american democrats want segregation again.

    They want their own colleges, own businesses where they don’t hire white people, want their own graduation ceremonies, want to even have majority black communities in the south.

  9. This black history month let's remember the black history of black grandmother Carolyn Jones who stabbed her black granddaughter and then put her black granddaughter into the oven and cooked her to death. Truly inspirational black history! I don't know if the oven was black, but probably.

  10. When I was in school a very long time ago in Dade County, Florida, neighborhoods were mostly segregated, by tradition rather than by law. Pupils mostly went to the school closest to their homes. In colleges, there was more mixing of races, and students kept their opinions to themselves.