#BlackHistoryMonth When African-born psychiatrist Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller was studying the brains of persons with dementia in Dr. Alois Alzheimer’s laboratory in 1904, there was no way for him to know that, a little more than a century later, dementia would be affecting African Americans at twice the rate of White Americans. Recognized now as the first Black psychiatrist in America, Dr. Fuller was born in Liberia in 1872. His paternal grandparents were enslaved persons from