Reveals that the suicide rate among African Americans ages 10-14 increased 233 percent while the rate for Whites increased 120 percent.

HealthyPlace.com article reveals that minorities with depression face barriers to getting help. Read for details.

Read this article by Dwan "Telly" Carter offered by HealthyPlace.com

Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes that Black leaders and parents still operate under the notion that black youths just don't commit suicide.

Patrick Taliaferro pens this article, detailing that one of the most pervasive and damaging falsehoods within and outside of the African American community is that Black men don’t commit suicide. Read for details.

Read this news report that revelas that guns were used in 54 percent of all black suicides in that age group in 1979 and in 74 percent by 1997.

Report offers a section dealing with suicide and depression in U.S. minority women.

Provides an abstract of a study by F.M. Baker of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.

Reveals new research shows that support from friends, family and faith provides a powerful buffer against suicide in the Black community, especially among those 65 and older, the age group with the highest suicide rate in the nation.

Listen to a NPR radio interview where Tony Cox discusses the issue with Dr. Alvin Poussaint of Harvard Medical School and with John Head, author of "Standing in the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men."

See this National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide reprint of a publication by Donna Holland Barnes, Ph.D. and Carl C. Bell, MD.

Barbara Jones Warren, in this HealthyPlace.com resource, addresses this topic from a psychiatric mental health nursing perspective.

Stanley Sue, PhD, reports that Asians underutilize mental health services much more than other populations. Browse this HealthyPlace.com resource.

Read an abstract of this study that was published by The British Journal of Psychiatry.

Reports "racism, stigma, stereotypes regarding motherhood and poverty make support unreachable, new research shows."

Reports "young Hispanic women and elderly Asian women are at exceptionally high risk of attempting or committing suicide, mental health experts and advocates testified at a State Assembly hearing."

Article notes the average black person, in America, is more likely than an average white person to suffer depression. View this HealthyPlace.com resource.

Notes research has found that there may be a reluctance on the part of black people to take antidepressants, to understand depressive symptoms, or to admit to having depression.

Browse to become familiar with this guide from HealthyPlace.com.

Read this report published by the Center for Disease Control. See editorial notes and references.

Browse to become familiar with this guide written by David Pryor, MD. See references provided.

Chris Stevenson writes about the suicide of his father's friend, and reports that from 1980-95, suicides from Black males 15-19 increased 105%. Read for details.

Trinh Tran offers a report of a study by Sean Joe, assistant research professor at the School of Social Work.

Reveals statistics show that roughly 5.7 per 100,000 African American deaths are certified as suicide-a rate of 5 each day.

Provides an epidemiological follow-up study of a defined population. See this NCBI resource.

Indiana University reseatch has found that uicides by both white and black groups in 1998-2002 peaked on Mondays but the peak was less pronounced for black suicides than for white suicides.

Read an abstract of this NCBI study that is based on the results of a national household survey.

Read an abstract of this study published by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.

Reports "Chinese American women have the highest suicide rates of all racial and ethnic groups nationwide."