Black Fatigue, Second Edition
How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Black people are exhausted. The toll of living within systems designed to exclude them devastates minds, bodies, and spirits. Award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters—now joined by Mareisha Winters Reese—addresses this ongoing crisis with an urgent update to her bestselling book.

Winters and Reese incorporate new data, fresh case studies, and expanded tools to reflect today's realities. This edition, with 50 percent new content, includes the following:Four new chapters on current challenges facing Black communitiesUpdated research on racism's health impacts in a post-COVID worldNew stories and case studies that illuminate lived experienceUpdated models reflecting today's most relevant findingsWith unflinching honesty and a practical lens, Winters and Reese document the enduring toll of "living while Black" while also equipping listeners with strategies for personal healing and organizational transformation. The research is current, the case studies are real, and the tools are designed to create lasting systemic change.