As a professor and writer, Dr. Poussaint helped shape how the nation understands the ways racism affects Black lives.

Alvin Francis Poussaint, professor of psychiatry, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, died on Feb. 24 at age 90 after a short illness. He died peacefully at home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with ...

Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist and author who helped expand perceptions of the Black experience in America with research into the effects of racism on mental health and as script adviser for ...

Poussaint, a Harvard psychiatrist who, among other things, had a significant influence on black politics and culture ...

Dr. Altha Stewart, so far the only Black member elected president of the American Psychiatric Association, wrote in ...

Poussaint's message that racism is partly a mental disorder drew criticism, in contrast to his earlier scholarship which ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Catholic world is gripped with uncertainty as Pope Francis, 88, remains in a Rome hospital because of a complex ...

Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist who provided medical care to civil rights activists in 1960s Mississippi and later became ...

The Francis College of Engineering has been recognized as exemplar and with a Bronze Award for the inaugural ASEE Diversity Recognition Program. The ASEE Diversity Recognition Program (ADRP) was ...

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