Impact of Racism on Mental Health

“Systemic racism—which accounts for individual, institutional, and structural forms of racism—is the intersecting, overlapping, and co-dependent institutional arrangements, policies, practices, ideas, cultural norms, and behaviors, that give an unjust number of resources, access, rights, respect, and power to white people while denying those same rights and resources to people of color,” according to New York University Law Professor and President of the American Civil Liberties Union, Deborah Archer.

These disparities in resources and power have measurably negative effects on the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities of color. In October 2021, the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission partnered with key community stakeholders to create a meaningful dialogue addressing systemic policies and practices that undermine mental health.

Alongside the Latino Judges Association, Bronx County Bar Association, Bronx Women’s Bar Association, Puerto Rican Bar Association, Dominican Bar Association, and the Bronx Family Court Bar Association, the Commission hosted an event entitled the “Impact of Racism on Mental Health.” The forum identified demonstrable ways in which systemic racism is connected to one’s mental health and well-being, and featured keynote speaker Dr. Karinn A. Glover, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Attending Adult Psychiatrist, Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Department at Montefiore Hospital.

Panelists included Hon. Edwina Richardson Mendelson, Hon. Llinét Rosado, a Franklin H. Williams Commissioner, and Daniel T. Lukasik, Esq.

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