The United States hasn’t made much progress in closing the economic chasm between blacks and whites over the past 50 years. Click on the link below to read more.
What Kind of Man Do You Want To Be – Google Hangout – Tuesday August 20, 2013 – 8 P.M. Eastern/5 P.M. PacificMarie Roker-Jones Of “Raising Great Men™”The Dr. Vibe Show – Info For Black Men And Those Who Love ThemThe Good Men Project
In partnership with The Good Men Project, we will be co-hosting a conversation with Marie Roker-Jones of Raising Great Men about modern masculinity and what it means to be a man today.
The first part of our conversation will be at 8:00 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific with Earl Hipp and Dr. Joe Brewster of the flim American Promise
Earl Hipp is an author, publisher, speaker/trainer, organizational adviser, and community consultant. Since 1982, he has consistently been involved with groups and organizations that focus on men’s issues and development. His most recent book is for men, titled, Man-Making – Men Helping Boys on Their Journey to Manhood.
Joe Brewster, M.D. is an American psychiatrist and filmmaker who directs and produces fiction films, documentaries and new media focused on the experiences of communities of color. His most recent film is American Promise
All you need to do watch the show live is to go The Dr. Vibe Show Homepage at http://thedrvibeshow.com/ tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific. You can also provide your comments and questions during the event via Twitter (#ManYouWantToBe) and at our Facebook Fan Page at “The Dr. Vibe Show” Facebook Fan Page
Dr. Grant is President and CEO of Mindful Training Solutions LLC, providing nationwide training and consultation services for universities, government entities and non-profit organizations. Dr. Grant also currently serves as the director of Pepperdine University’s Urban Fellowship Program and as adjunct professor of psychology in their Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Dr Grant previously served as a psychologist with Los Angeles County foster care youth as the county’s Department of Mental Health’s Child Welfare administrator for the countywide Intensive Treatment Foster Care program. Dr. Grant began providing direct clinical services to foster care youth and their families in the South Los Angeles, Compton and Lynwood areas after serving as Site Coordinator for a CalWORKS Homeless program in El Monte, CA in 2008. Dr. Grant holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Hampton University and a Doctorate of Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. As a former public school teacher, Dr. Grant maintains his passion for academia by teaching courses at several local universities. Dr. Grant’s primary
interests focus on the risk factors associated with multi-systemic marginalization of Black and Latino Americans while increasing awareness on mental health issues and disparities impacting the most vulnerable citizens of our country independent of ethnicity.
During our conversation, Dr. Grant talks about:
– Some of his background growing up on the east coast of America
– How he originally wanted to become a microbiologist and what do they do
– What his life like growing up in a small housing project as a son of divorced parents in Buffalo, New York
– How it was going to a HBCU (Historical Black College)
– When the turn happened for him to get into psychology
– What Mindful Training Solutions does
– The background his article The Zimmerman Verdict: My Black Son’s Dispensability, which he wrote before George Zimmerman was found innocent in the murder of Trayvon Martin
– His take about the Trayvon Martin incident and the George Zimmerman trial
– Why did he decide to publish the article before the verdict
– His perceptions of today’s Black man
– An interesting conversation about being brown with his four year old son
– The dialogue that has resulted because of his article
– Why does he feel that there are not more discussions about white privilege
– What message has been set to Black men as a result of the George Zimmerman verdict?
– His thoughts about the Trayvon Martin incident and the George Zimmerman verdict
– Does he feel that there should be another trial? Does he want to see George Zimmerman in court again?
– What do these groups need to do post Zimmerman verdict: White America? Black America? Black men?
– Many Black people who are suffering from a mental health issue are afraid to discuss it
– Did any of their elders address the issue of mental health with them?
– Marie mentions when she was younger how her mother suffered from mental illness but her mother never spoke about it
– How they each have suffered from depression
– Kenya shares how she suffers from chronic depression and that it runs in her family
– Why Rae has put herself in counselling for six months last year and why
– What are some of the mental challenges that women are going through and why
– Marie talks about motherhood and mental health challenges
– How women are taught to take care of the family but don’t spend time on themselves
– Brandy Williams one of our regular panelists joins the conversation from Baton Rouge, Louisiana after she has just lost her grandmother
– A listener who has experience in the mental health field joins the discussion
The idea that strict drug laws have done more harm than good in black America is common these days. But early on, many African-American leaders championed those same tough-on-crime policies. Click on the link below to read more.
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PBS host Tavis Smiley joined Bill O’Reilly to react to O’Reilly’s assertions about the lack of media coverage over black-on-black crime in the United States.
