LIFTING THE HEAVIEST WEIGHT
Aug 13, 2020
3 minutes
ILLUSTRATION BY ARRINGTON PORTER
BEFORE STARTING medical school, I felt like I had hit rock bottom, and late one night, after my family was asleep, I got in my car and drove to a park downtown to walk under the moonlight.
At the time, I didn’t know it, but I was dealing with more than one demon: the assault on my mind that is depression and the assault on my identity that is systemic racism. Black men are often victims of daily discrimination,
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