Black boys are twice as likely to be identified with Emotional Disability, and the label sticks. What gets read as defiance is often a mask. Here is what I learned in over a decade as a Black male school psychologist, and what practitioners can do tomorrow to help boys safely take it off.

Deficit thinking persists in schools because it's rooted in racism, eugenics, and the very tools we use. Here's what school psychologists must confront.