Dr. Vibe’s AlliesThe Victory Unlimited ShowHenri MorrisKenya WilliamsRaegan MathisBrandy WilliamsMarie Roker-Jones Of “Raising Great Men™”
On this month’s edition of “Dr. Vibe’s Allies”, we will dealing with the following question: “What Bad Habits Should Black Folks Should Be Trying To Get Rid Of?”
During our live conversastion, you have the opportunity to call in and share with us and ask questions via Skype. If you would like to do this, please call us at: doctorvibe42. If you get through, please be patient and we will get to your call as soon as possible.
All you need to do listen to the show live is to go The Dr. Vibe Show Homepage at http://thedrvibeshow.com/ tonight at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST. You can also provide your comments and questions during the event via Twitter (@drvibeshow#DrVibe) and at our Facebook Fan Page at “The Dr. Vibe Show” Facebook Fan Page
The U.S. Supreme Court ended its blockbuster civil-rights term by cutting legal protections for racial minorities even as it bolstered them for gays. Click on the link below to read more.
Zero Gun Violence Movement – A City-Wide Collaboration For Life
With 12 lives cut short by gun violence this year, a collection of Toronto community organizations believe it’s time to do more and do better to save lives. These organizations have launched the Zero Gun Violence Movement.
The ambitious movement is a a 90-day summer campaign that will re-engage the public, businesses and institutions into their respective communities. The summer campaign will call for new resources from corporations, facilitate communication between community organizations and create a central data bank of all programs and services geared towards youth.
The number of organizations and programs in support of the Zero Gun Violence Movement continues to grow. The following organizations have already committed to the Movement: Redemption Reintegration Services (RRS), Young and Potential Fathers (YPF) Black Daddies Club (BDC), Impact n’ Communities, United Mothers Opposing Violence Everywhere (UMOVE), More Than A Haircut, Breaking the Cycle, Urban Financial Services Coalition, Toronto Loves Kicks, Out of Bounds, First Fridays, Harriet Tubman Community Services, Afro-United, For Youth Initiatives and the Coalition of African Canadian Community Organizations.
We will have Louis March of the Zero Gun Movement live on our show tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific.
During our live interview, you have the opportunity to call in and share with us and ask questions via Skype. If you would like to do this, please call us at: doctorvibe42. If you get through, please be patient and we will get to your call as soon as possible.
All you need to do listen to 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 (@drvibeshow#DrVibe) and at our Facebook Fan Page at “The Dr. Vibe Show” Facebook Fan Page
For more info please contact Louis March at 416-577-3908 or Serge Badio at 647-297-1557. You can also email zerogunviolence.movement@gmail.com.
Akiim was born in New England and raised in Rochester, New York. After attending *four* high schools (Catholic, City, Black Suburban, White suburban) and four colleges (3 HBCUs) he began a mission to have a true understanding of Black America in order to be a part of the solution.
At age 20, he used a combination of paper, scissors, tape, and a copy machine without management’s approval to create a new manual because his employer ATC (now Aegis CLM) was in trouble with the client. The manual was implemented department wide and he was promoted soon after. By age 23, he was managing more than 700 employees after saving another client that the executive office had previously given up on.
In college, he started an organization called BLAC (Brothers Leading And Changing) which was a failure. The work load of a full time job and full time school was too much for the 23 year old so he quit school to pursue what he felt was a successful and promising career. Unfortunately, his mission suffered.
In 1999, Akiim changed his career to Information Technology even without any schooling or training in that profession. He worked with computers for more than two years before buying one of his own. In early 2003, he was promoted to Senior Technical Analyst.
In November 2003, he became very ill and was diagnosed with Leukemia. The doctor in the ER (Dr. Megan Conoley) prayed for him and his wife out-loud in the ER. She is now his family doctor. Three days later he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and savoir.
Unfortunately, the chemotherapy failed. The prognosis turned grim (10-15%) but his only sibling Rashaan DeShay was a perfect match for a bone marrow transplant.
His second child and only son was born a week before his transplant which took place on Good Friday, April 2004. A week later, he launched his first website, BlacksinDallas.com, from the hospital while still in recovery.
Recovery for Akiim has been long and very difficult. Since then, physical pain and suffering has been part of his daily life. Akiim later helped start a campaign in Dallas to recruit African Americans to join the National Marrow Donor Programs registry to help save other Black lives. For this he created the website, BlackBoneMarrow.com, which has since become a national reference for the issue regarding the lack of donors in the Black Community.
In 2007, he launched his largest web site, BlackDemographics.com, an attempt to create a blueprint of Black America. A single resource for information about African Americans, and how we work, live, learn, vote, and pray.
Unfortunately on Super Bowl Sunday 2009, Akiim became very ill again
(strep, flu, pneumonia and acute epiglottitis) and went to the Emergency room in a Dallas hospital where he stopped breathing. After flat-lining twice and two separate emergency surgeries the doctors told his wife he should have died but will have severe brain damage due to loss of oxygen to the brain (5-10min).
Miraculously, he woke up the next morning with no brain damage and was released two weeks later to live a normal life. The doctors all say it was a miracle. But he knows God is the only reason for his survival.
Akiim DeShay shares:
– Some of experiences growing up and what he overcame
– How he started website (blacksindallas.com)which he finished while he was getting a bone marrow transplant that saved him dying from leukemia in 1992 which lead into blackdemographics.com in 2007
– About the early days of blackdemographics.com, how it is grown especially since Barack obama has become president of the United States and why does he keep on doing it
– The most referenced information on the site (relationships between Black men and Black women, more Black men in jail than in college issues)
– The issue of Black men and prison
– What concerns does he have for Black America and what are some solutions
– How the most recent recession has effected Black Americans and widening wealth gap between Black America and White America
– The white population becoming more like the Black population
– Encouraging Blacks to find out about leukemia and bone marrow transplant
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