Destigmatize

When Yinka Oladele's husband was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2016, she automatically became his caregiver — but she struggled to find the information and resources needed to navigate his diagnosis as a Black patient. She then made a…

She also demonstrated that while bereavement and grief can trigger major depression, periods of grief, even ones lasting a year, were not in themselves depressive episodes. And she showed that grief, far from progressing along a neatly…