Díaz and Moore: How young Black leaders are addressing mental health and pushing for change

Jean Clare Sarmiento/KJZZ The Cut’n Corners & Convos Barber Shop in Tempe. Faith Johnson’s mother, Joy, owns Cut’n Corners & Convos Barber Shop in Tempe. The 22-year-old University of Arizona graduate is using it now to help start conversations about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, depression and aggression. Johnson’s story is the subject of Greg Moore’s latest column in the Arizona Republic. Moore joined joined editorial page editor Elvia Díaz to talk about it.  Full interview LAUREN GILGER: Good morning to you both. ELVIA DÍAZ: Good morning. GREG MOORE: Hey, good morning. GILGER: All right. So Elvia, we have you on every Monday to talk about what’s in the opinion pages of the paper usually to do with politics. And this morning it’s a little bit different. So start with a little bit about why you wanted to talk about this story this week. DÍAZ: Look, every single day we are inundated with topics that are so politically divisive. I mean, that’s the world that we live in. So we are focusing too much sometimes I, I think on, on a few characters in our political spectrum locally and nationally. And so this is a very different cow, and so the way...