In a recent episode of NPR’s Fresh Air podcast, journalist Antonia Hylton outlines the sordid history of a black asylum in Maryland that, for decades, used its patients for free labor and forced them to live in squalid conditions. Hylton suggests that facilities like this may help to explain the long-standing stigma against mental health in the black community today.
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