Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist who provided medical care to civil rights activists in the 1960s and later became a national authority on the effects of racism on Black mental health, has died at the age of 90.

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Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist who provided medical care to civil rights activists in the 1960s and later became a national authority on the effects of racism on Black mental health, has died at the age of 90.
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