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Achieving & Protecting Mental Health Wellness: ‘The Answers We Seek… Are in Our Playlists’ (Guest Column)
Former U.S. ambassador Nicole Avant on music's role in achieving and protecting mental health wellness.
Nicole Avant attends the History Talks 2024 Red Carpet at David Geffen Theater, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Sept. 21, 2024 in Los Angeles. In 1983, I learned about the civil rights struggles in Northern Ireland and of the 1972 protest that turned deadly there … not in school but by listening to U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” Lacking even the most basic protections, women in Somalia are subject to female genital mutilation and offered as child brides at alarming rates. But it was the haunting lyrics of Sade’s “Pearls,” particularly the poignant second verse — “Don’t know what she’s made of … I would like to be that brave” — that stuck in my heart and helped shape my life into adulthood.
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