Introduction: The rate of violent crime has been decreasing since the early 1990s; however, the rate of deaths resulting from legal intervention at its highest point since the civil rights era. A recent study published in The Lancet showed that these events accounted for a cumulative 55 Million poor mental health days for Black Americans. Other aspects of police interaction may also be affecting adverse mental health outcomes for communities. To examine whether experiencing lifetime arrest and marijuana-related arrest is associated with past-year suicide ideation, and assess race differences between Black and White people. Methods: A literature review was conducted analyzing the findings of other studies on the impact that Stop and Frisk policies, exposure to police killings, and other aspects of police practices have had on the mental health of Black American's. We also used data from Wave-IV (2008-2009; N=5,114) of the non-restricted publicly available National Adolescent Health Study (Add Health) data. Add Health is a longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in the U.S., which aimed to investigate American adolescents' health trajectories into their adulthood. A total of 4,313 participants were selected from the study, self-identified as White Non-Hispanic and Black or African American Non-Hispanic. Logistic regression was used to assess whether lifetime arrest and marijuana-related arrests were associated with past-year suicide. We stratified by race, and controls of income, education, lifetime depression, gender, and health insurance status were included in all models. Results:Overall, 28.8% of the sample reported lifetime any arrest, 6.3% reported lifetime suicide ideation, and 3.7% reported marijuana-related arrest. A significantly higher percentage of Black people (32.3%) in comparison to White people (27.4%) reported lifetime arrest (χ2=9.91; p Conclusions: Rates of suicide among Black people have been rising for two decades. Further efforts to educate and inform key stakeholders, including law enforcement, policymakers regarding racial disparities and arrests are necessary. Theoretical approaches may involve interventions at the police department level, such as increasing implicit bias training implementation. Community organization initiatives such as citizen oversight committees have also shown to reduce disparities in police arrest practices which may reduce the adverse impacts on mental health in these communities.

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Abstract: This work examines the writings and other discursive practices of Ken Saro- Wiwa, the Nigerian dissident writer and minority rights activist, who was hanged by the military authorities in Nigeria in November 1995. Until his death, Saro- Wiwa had been a tireless campaigner against transnational oil corporations for devastating the local ecology while prospecting for oil, and against the Nigerian state for repressing oil-bearing minority communities through its nationalist bureaucratic practices. After his death, the ideas of this writer contained in over twenty literary texts and detention diaries continue to frame and inflame agitational discourses in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and beyond. The aim of this work is to identify, interpret and critique the vast miscellany of oppositional modalities employed by Ken Saro-Wiwa and his Ogoni community in their tussles with nationalist modernity in Nigeria. Using interpretive protocols derived mainly from minority discourse theory, I attempt to examine and assess the place and significance of Ken Saro-Wiwa within the corpus of dissident culturalist discourse in Africa and beyond.

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Traditionally, the discourse on race relations in the U.S. has focused on relations between Whites and ethnic minorities, with little being known about the antecedents and consequences of inter-minority prejudice. This paper will present results from two studies that were conducted with Asian, Black, and Latino undergraduate students, assessing motivations to embrace a collective identity with ethnic minorities (versus express prejudice towards other ethnic minority groups). Blacks,’ Asians’, and Latinos’ ethnic group identification, as well their identification with a superordinate "people of color" (POC) category were assessed. POC identification was found to be closely aligned with one's political beliefs (e.g., perceptions that the system is unjust, and that racial minorities face discrimination in the U.S.) For Asian participants, POC identification predicted more positive attitudes towards other ethnic minority groups perceived to face similar discrimination in the U.S. (e.g., Latinos and Blacks.) However, Blacks' identification as POC actually predicted negative attitudes towards Asians, who were not seen as facing the same barriers to upward mobility as other racial minority groups in the U.S. The results indicate that the politics of POC identification might actually contribute to increased tension between ethnic minorities in the U.S.; implications for more effecting coalition building between racial minorities in the U.S. are also discussed in this paper.

Sexual minorities are at risk for poorer mental health outcomes due to unique minority stressors. Anticipated stigma and concealment are documented as predictors of worse outcomes among this population; however, limited research has examined how interactions between minority stressors contribute to health outcomes. This study of sexual minorities (n = 147) recruited through social media examined the moderating role of concealment on the relationship between anticipated stigma and psychiatric symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depressive symptoms). Moderation analyses revealed concealment significantly moderated the relationship between anticipated stigma and anxiety symptoms, but not depressive symptoms. Clinically addressing minority stress may reduce psychiatric symptoms.

Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) often face worse health outcomes in comparison with their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. Positive psychology interventions (PPIs) have the potential to improve these outcomes. In this article we review 130 articles containing online positive psychology interventions and evaluate them based on effect size, length of follow-up, and sample characteristics. Based on these findings applied to the psychological mediation framework (Hatzenbuehler, 2009), we recommend the following interventions be tested in SGM samples: self-compassion, optimism, love, forgiveness, humor, and spirituality. Future research that tailors existing positive psychology interventions to the lived experiences of SGM individuals could ameliorate health disparities.

Sexual minorities face unique stressors that contribute to worse mental health (Meyer, 2003). Positive psychology interventions may be able to ameliorate this. The current study pilot tested an identityspecific positive psychology intervention among 20 sexual minorities. Results suggest that the intervention reduced depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and anticipated discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. This implies that positive psychology interventions may be able to address health disparities among sexual minorities.

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