“You have a well-deserved cultural mistrust of professional services in African American communities. White providers for years have been racist, oppressive, dismissive, have misdiagnosed (illnesses),” said Jonathan Singer, a professor of social work at Loyola University Chicago and president of the American Association of Suicidology. “The same counselor, because of their bias, might see an emotionally disregulated white kid and think, ‘I wonder if this kid is struggling with suicidal thoughts,’ but not think the same thing of a black kid because of their bias.”