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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1113
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 11:30 am: | 
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More info: http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/phip071806pkg.cfm?CFID=6810929&CFTOKEN=16868270
On July 18, 2006, from 10 a.m. to noon ET, the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post will host a forum in the Foundation's Barbara Jordan Conference Center featuring Bill Cosby and a panel of national leaders examining the experiences of young black men in America. A live webcast of the forum will be available at this webpage.
The forum, Paths to Success: A Forum on Young African-American Men, will address the results of a major new national survey conducted by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University. The discussion will focus on strategies to enable young black men to succeed in America today and build on themes presented in the Post's series, "Being a Black Man."
The forum will begin with a conversation with Bill Cosby followed by a panel discussion among national leaders and young people. The event will be moderated by Harvard Law School Professor and Foundation Trustee Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Foundation CEO and former New Jersey Human Services Commissioner Drew Altman will provide opening remarks and highlight key findings from the survey.
Panelists include:
Ras Baraka, high school vice principal and leader in gang intervention and prevention
Bishop, of Saving Our Selves, an organization aimed at halting gang violence
Joy Angela DeGruy-Leary, author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Oakland Mayor-Elect Ronald Dellums, a former Congressman and chair of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies' Dellum Commission on young men of color
James Forman, Jr., professor of Law at Georgetown University
Dion Haynes and Steven Holmes of The Washington Post
Rev. Donald Isaac, executive director of the East of the River Clergy-Police-Community Partnership
Jachin Leatherman, Ballou High School valedictorian
Loose, of Saving Our Selves, an organization aimed at halting gang violence
Wayne Nesbit, Ballou High School salutatorian
U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
Dr. Alvin Poussaint, a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston
Eva Rousseau, former principal of Dunbar Senior High School in Washington, D.C.
Faye Wattleton, president of the Center for the Advancement of Women
Corey Wiggins, doctoral student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and 2004 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholar
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Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 399
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 11:48 am: |
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Sounds interesting but I wonder if any of this will have any meaningful effect or measured impact. That seems to be the Achilles heel of all these so-called black symposiums, meetings and forums. I don't know of any substantial measurable impact any of them have had after it is all said and done. Good luck |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 5073
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 12:43 pm: |
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You know who I WISH would chair this council: My high school College Algebra and Physics teachers. Those were some Black men who could REALLY motivate a young brotha to want to study, learn and succeed. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1114
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 04:15 pm: |
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Ntsf, I share your skepticism in general about these types of things. Time will only tell how this one shakes up. I am slightly more optimistic, though, when I read the descriptions of the panelists: Some of them appear to be "the usual suspects" of public intellectuals, political types, etc. But there also seem to be some pretty grass roots type folks in the mix too.
Plus another thing that is a little different about this is it appears to be backed some some fairly substantial bank. Now, depending on your perspective that may be either a blessing or a curse. But the Kaiser foundation in particular has a pretty decent reputation for funding efforts that do produce results, or at least provide hard facts that people who are trying to make a difference on the ground can use.
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Roxie
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Username: Roxie
Post Number: 861
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 04:29 pm: |
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"Successful" black men?
GOOD LUCK!
OTFLMAO!
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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1117
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 10:12 am: |
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Believe me, Roxie, they are out there. Keep the faith!
ABM, have you ever dropped these men a line since adulthood? I know they (or, their spouses, kids, and grandkids if they are no longer living or fully present) would appreciate hearing from one of their success stories. I often think about the little ones I used to teach in Head Start and other settings. All of them are teens to young adults now--I can't look at folks in that age group today without thinking of my kids, hoping and praying they are all OK somewhere out in the world... |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2451
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
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May God strike Cosby down before he draws breath to speak. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1119
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 04:42 pm: |
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Chris, man, chill. Have a jello puddin pop. LOL |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4847
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 05:15 pm: |
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For somebody who constantly criticizes black folks as being their own worst enemy, I don't see how chrishayden can dare to point a finger at people like Bill Cosby and Stanley Crouch. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 5088
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 08:37 pm: |
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Yvettep,
Alas, I have not.
One of them passed on a little over 10 years ago. I had a minor association with his son (we attended the same college for a few years) but lost touch with him when he took a gig overseas.
I was never able to find the other teacher after I finished high school, largely because the high school I attended closed down the year after I graduated and I did not have his home address or phone number.
You know, when you're young, you always feel as though you'll have enuff time for such things. But time itself proves...otherwise. |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 415
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 03:54 pm: |
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"Successful" black men? GOOD LUCK!
Duhhhhhh..??? Where do you live? I know of plenty.
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Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 416
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 03:55 pm: |
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"May God strike Cosby down before he draws breath to speak."
Why? For telling the truth? |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1361
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 10:46 pm: |
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if truth had anything to do with helping black people we would have been free along time ago! |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 5123
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 07:54 am: |
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I've said this before and I'll say it again: African Americans constitute 13% of the US population YET own LESS than 2% of it's wealth (by comparison, Saudi Arabia owns over 7% of US wealth). So, to me, the problems of Black foks greatly transcend just our poor, ignorant and ill-bred. American Black foks as a whole - and that INCLUDES Cosby, Oprah and P.Diddy - are wholly impotent and will remain so UNTIL we devise and preserve means of developing and growing ownership and power. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1136
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 09:58 pm: |
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The webcast is now on the site: http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/phip071806pkg.cfm?CFID=6810929&CFTOKEN=16868270 |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1137
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 10:24 pm: |
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P.S.: It's loooong. But it is worth a full viewing.
Oh, and love him or leave him, you even get to hear the Cos say "sh**"--Woo-hoo! Puddin pops for everybody! |
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