Roland Martin talks with Dr. Carl Bell, Director of Public Health and Community Psychiatry, about the issues of mental health in the aftermath of the tragedy at Sandy Hooks Elementary.
Roland Martin, Abby Huntsman, Zoraida Sambolin, Jim Frederick and Soledad O’Brien discuss the lawsuits, concussions, suicides and tragedies that are plaguing the NFL.
by Jason Whitlock Columnist for FoxSports.com Football is embarrassingly tone deaf. Jovan Belcher, a starting linebacker for the Chiefs, murdered the mother of his child shortly before 8 a.m. Saturday. He hopped in his car, drove to the Kansas City Chiefs practice facility, thanked Romeo Crennel and Scott Pioli — and shot himself in the head in [...]
Source: AP / The Huffington Post CHICAGO — U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was back at the Mayo Clinic for an evaluation Tuesday and possibly a longer stay, nearly two months after being released for treatment of bipolar disorder at the Minnesota hospital, his father said Tuesday. “I don’t know how long he’s going to [...]
Source: Deirdre Walsh / CNN Washington – Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has checked out of the Mayo Clinic, where he was being treated for bipolar depression, and is now back in Washington with his family, his chief of staff said Friday. The 47-year-old Jackson had not been on Capitol Hill since late May. His office said in [...]
Source: CNN Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is suffering from “serious depression — deep, deep depression,” his longtime friend and former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy told CNN Friday, a day after meeting with Jackson at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “Jesse is getting the help he needs and he needs to make that his priority,” [...]
Source: Jason Carroll and Sheila Steffen / CNN Saginaw, Michigan - Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall. He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing motorists and [...]
Roland Martin talks with Dr. Jeff Gardere about Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. being diagnosed with Bipolar 2, what are the symptoms and how to treat the disease. Subscribe to the Roland S. Martin Daily Podcast via iTunes.
Source: AP / The Washington Post CHICAGO — Doctors say Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is under treatment for bipolar disorder. A release Monday from the Mayo Clinic states that the Democrat underwent an extensive evaluation and is responding well to treatment for the disorder at the facility in Rochester, Minn. The release says Jackson is [...]
Roland Martin talks with Terrie Williams, author of Black Pain, about Rep Jesse Jackson, Jr. and depression. For more information about Terrie Williams visit http://www.terriewilliams.com. To order Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting visit Amazon.com. Subscribe to the Roland S. Martin Daily Podcast via iTunes.