Mental health kits bring stressed students tea and comfort

Image:  For the past three years, Martez Files, a professor of African American studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has created mental health kits for struggling students. What started as an effort to give back to the school district he grew up in, Birmingham City Schools, has grown into a full-scale operation involving student volunteers committed to distributing the kits on campus and to public schools throughout the state. Files got the idea after he went through his...