This Father's Day I'm grieving with Black children who have lost their fathers to police brutality. Here's why you should also mourn — and how to support them.

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• Dr. Wizdom Powell is a trauma psychologist and expert on the physical and emotional impacts of racism in the lives of Black men and boys.
• This Father's Day, Dr. Powell mourns and grieves for the Black children who have lost their fathers to police violence, and says she is concerned about the trajectories of emotional well-being with these children.
• She lists seven ways you can help the Black community and especially Black children this Father's Day.
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Children around the world celebrate their fathers today. But in some households, this Father's Day feels different. I imagine that Father's Day feels devastatingly different for Gianna Floyd, daughter of George Floyd and the numbers of children who have recently lost Black fathers to police violence.

These children have had their fathers — and therefore a joyful Father's Day — forcibly taken. 

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