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In the wake of these devastating losses, Vance has focused on peeling back the layers of both his father’s pain and his own struggles as a Black man in America.

In a new book, The Invisible Ache, Vance and psychologist Robin L. Smith (who often goes by Dr. Robin) explore the trauma unique to Black men and boys, and address what they see as an urgent need to change the conversation about mental health.

Smith points to a modern culture of isolation and loneliness, which the surgeon general has referred to as a public health emergency.

Though the book is focused on the mental health of Black boys and men, Vance says the issue has universal implications: "We are all interconnected.

The experience that the white world has of them is their skin color and their gender, [which], put together, creates a level of fear.

So that person who I’m describing, who is pathologized and demonized, can ingest that as if those lies are true and then never expose and be treated for what it has cost them to be Black and male in America.

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