Mental illness is by no means a recent phenomenon in human civilization. ... The Dark History Of America's First Mental Asylum. Posted: August 19, 2024 | Last updated: August 19, 2024.

Central State Hospital was founded in Richmond in 1870 as the world’s first mental institution for Black people in a state that had also established the nation's first state mental hospital in 1773.

It was supposed to be a big party under a tent with two choirs to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the first mental hospital in the United States for Blacks, most of them just ...

The hospital was founded in Richmond in 1870 as the world’s first mental institution for Black people in a state that had also established the first state mental hospital in the nation at ...

"One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female." These were the damning words of an inspector who visited London's Bethlem ...

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.