Black Mental Health UK: your news, policy and research resource on mental health and African Caribbean communities. We aim to reduce the inequalities in the treatment and care of people from African Caribbean communities and inform these communities on how to influence the strategic development, policy design and implementation of services.

By Zephaniah Samuels
With research showing that elders from the UK's African Caribbean communities are more likely to be effected by dementia at a much younger age than their white counterparts, involvement in a consultation on the future of Older Mental Health care in Lewisham is a must for health activists and professionals from the community.

By Staff writer
The family of mental health service user, Sean Rigg who died just 90 minutes after he was taken into police custody in 2008,  have been forced to deal with the desecration of the memorial they placed outside Brixton Police station, just weeks before inquest into his death begins.

By Ruth Dayspring
Health experts from the community have voiced disappointment at a new report from the Centre for Social Justice on mental health counselling which completely omits any reference to ethnic minority groups and the need for more culturally appropriate therapies.

By Zephaniah Samuels
Questions have been raised over the exclusion of agencies representing African Caribbean mental health service users from a Department of Health meeting with mental health stakeholders on long term conditions, in light of the over representation of black patients in acute services.

By Staff writer
Activists from across the community have come out in support of calls by the new campaigns group, Campaign for Justice, for the abolition of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), on the grounds that the police watchdog is not independent.