02/02/2026
Happy Mental Health and Music Monday - Black History Month Edition! 🎧🧠🎶💐
Music has always been more than sound in Black communities. It’s been survival, thriving, resistance, prayer, protest, and healing.
Before mental health language was accessible, music held the pain...
Before therapy rooms were safe, songs told the truth...
From spirituals to blues, jazz to hip-hop, rock, R&B to gospel, music has carried grief, joy, rage, hope, and resilience when the world refused to listen.
For generations, Black artists have named trauma, depression, anxiety, loss, and systemic harm long before society acknowledged them. Music became a mirror and a lifeline, a way to regulate emotions, process collective trauma, and feel less alone.
This Black History Month, we honor music as a mental health resource.
We honor artists who turned pain into poetry.
We honor the healing that happens when a lyric hits home and reminds you:
“I’m not crazy. I’m human.”
Mental health is Black history.
Healing is Black history.
And music has always been part of the work. 🖤
Featured Song: Keep Your Head to the Sky by Earth, Wind & Fire
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