July is Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month or BIPOC Mental Health Month. Since 2008, this was named after journalist, author, educator, and mental health advocate, Bebe Moore Campbell. Her contributions and legacy remind us that BIPOC communities are significantly more likely to develop mental health conditions, including burnout, a form of exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged emotional, physical, and mental stress.

This week on Basic Black Extra: Basic Black at the Boston Public Library, a discussion about burnout in the workplace and its effect on the BIPOC community, women of color and millennials.

Guest Panelists:

Celeste Viciere, LMHC, therapist, author, and host of the ‘Celeste the Therapist Podcast’

Cecil Webster, MD, psychiatrist, and lecturer at Harvard Medical School

Donna Latson Gittens hosts