Standing in the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men

A first-of-its-kind exploration of black men and depression from an award-winning journalist.

The first book to reveal the depths of black men’s buried mental and emotional pain, Standing in the Shadows weaves the author’s story of his twenty-five-year struggle with depression with a cultural analysis of how the illness is perceived in the black community—and why nobody wants to talk about it.

In mainstream society depression and mental illness are still somewhat taboo subjects; in the black...