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Identifying and Implementing Effective Mental Health Strategies for Black America – ALC ’18
The Congressional Black Caucus in partnership with the Greater Washington Urban League and WURD Black Talk Media, hosted an interactive 2-hour evidence-based discussion on mental health issues in the African American community. Historically, communities of...
FreeHer National Conference – September 28th-30th, 2018 in Tulsa Oklahoma
Hosted by the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and the Women's Collective to End Incarceration of Women and Girls. Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 28th-30th, 2018 On September 28th-30th, formerly incarcerated women and girls,...
FreeHer National Conference – Request for Proposals Deadline Extended to 8/15
Flyer below The mission of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls (National Council) is to end the incarceration of women and girls. We do this by providing a membership platform of technical support, complex coalition...
IBW Black Family Summit (BFS) Education, Orientation, Advocacy Retreat
Baltimore, MD, May 2-3, 2018 — Members of IBW's Black Family Summit (BFS) and Justice Collaborative met for a two day Education, Orientation, Advocacy Retreat at the National Office of Institute of the Black World 21st Century. Retreat Synopsis The 2-day Retreat began...
CBC Letter on SAMHSA Budget Cuts and Petition
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Black Psychiatrists, Patients Share History of Trauma
In accepting the 2018 Solomon Carter Fuller Award, Patricia Newton, M.D., M.A., M.P.H., noted that many of the same challenges that Fuller faced a century ago are still present for African-American psychiatrists and patients. Fuller is celebrated as the first African-American psychiatrist. He worked closely with Alois Alzheimer and Emil Kraepelin in Germany, and he lectured at the Clark University conference in 1909 when Sigmund Freud made his only U.S.…
Gun Violence and Saving Black Children
By Sharon L. McDaniel and Leonard Burton, Black Administrators in Child Welfare (BACW The Beacon) — It’s happened again—another mass school shooting in America. The images of horror-struck teens at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. continue to...
The Institute of the Black World (IBW) Engaged in Hurricane Disaster Relief Efforts
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SOBWC IV Working Session: Sustaining and Enhancing the Black Family Photos
Photos from the State of the Black World Conference IV, held November 16-20, 2016 in Newark, NJ at the Robert Treat Hotel
SOBWC IV: Sustaining and Enhancing the Black Family Photos
Photos from the State of the Black World Conference IV, held November 16-20, 2016 in Newark, NJ at the Robert Treat Hotel