This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

Between the pandemic, the racial reckoning and the threat of political violence,

many black Americans have been suffering from mental health challenges over the last few years.

Those pressures are showing up in our family and our careers.

And that's true for pro athletes, whose best and worst days at work are broadcast all over the world.

When you talk about bringing their race to the game of basketball,

I am a believer that race almost precedes us.

Before I walk in the room, race almost walks in front of me.

Black mental health and sports and beyond coming up on a word.

With me, Jason Johnson, stay with us.

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Welcome to a word, a podcast about race and politics and everything else.

I'm your host, Jason Johnson. The NBA season is over the Golden State Warriors

have racked up another championship and players across the league are settling in for the

off season. On the court, NBA players are among the athletic elite.

Off the court, most are young black men who are dealing with the same social and cultural trauma

that the rest of the African-American community is subjected to.

In recent years, players have found themselves at the center of the toughest social and political

debates from COVID policy to racial justice in addition to all the pressures of growing up in

the public eye. Now more teams are beginning to focus on maintaining the mental and not just physical

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