Churches, Schools Urged to Get Involved in Fight to Save African-American Men

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"We need mentors," said Stan Embry, the principal elementary principal at Africentric. "The district has a program and it's trying to get more mentors. We need Black males who have professional jobs to come in so that [Black boys] can see people that look like them that are succeeding."

"The [Black] community's high rate of crimes of violence, illegitimacy and broken homes can be traced in part to the Negro's learned self-hatred as well as to poverty," famed psychologist Alvin Poussaint wrote in his essay entitled "The Negro American: His-SeIf Image and Integration," which was published in a 1968 book called "The Black Power Revolt"

"There's internalized oppression," he said. "Black men see their condition in overall society. Then there is the access to alcohol and drugs ... If you don't have strong programs of intervention and change, the overall outcome is violence - because of the proximity - the violence will be against people they know in their community."

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Churches, Schools Urged to Get Involved in Fight to Save African-American Men

Last week we focused on why Black men are the leading victims and suspects of homicides.

As a voice of the Black community the Call & Post cannot afford to just report the fact that our men are killing themselves. We have to be a part of the solution.

While talking to several educators from aro...

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