Mental health activist and celebrated public relations speaker Terrie M. Williams delves into why depression is so hidden among Black Americans and how issues of racism and sexism persist in making depression a silent killer.

There is a depression epidemic happening across Black American communities.

Feeling unable to speak openly about their pain and vulnerable to neglect in predominantly white medical institutions, Black people in America are suffering silently. This needs to change, but how?

Terrie M. Williams is a mental health activist who, at the height of her career, realized she had been suffering from depression for years. In her 2009 book Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting, Williams examines why this happens to so many Black Americans.

Williams assesses how generations of racism and sexism continue to impact the mental health of Black people and how, ultimately, we all have the power to make a change.