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    <![CDATA[Come on, People!: On the Path from Victims to Victors]]>
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    <![CDATA[Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint have a powerful message for families and communities as they lay out their visions for strengthening America, or for that matter the world. They address the crises of people who are stuck because of feelings of low self-esteem, abandonment, anger, fearfulness, sadness, and feelings of being used, undefended and unprotected. These feelings often impede their ability to move forward. The authors aim to help empower people make the daunting transition from victims to victors. <em>Come On, People!</em> is always engaging, and loaded with heart-piercing stories of the problems facing many communities.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Heath Crisis Among African-Americans]]>
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    <![CDATA[Suicide is now the third leading cause of death among Black males ages 15-19, after homicide and accidents.  Although lifestyles in many cases differ dramatically, there have been no studies to determine whether or not the risk factors among African-Americans differ significantly from those of whites.  These startling statistics demonstrate a real crisis in America's social landscape, and more specifically in our health care system.  Leading child psychologist and co-author of the classic RAISING BLACK CHILDREN, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint and award-winning journalist Amy Alexander, both of whom have lost siblings to suicide, offer LAY MY BURDEN DOWN as a serious and urgent response to a national medical emergency.  Beginning with a concise analysis of the often troubled realtionship between African-Americans and a white medical establishment, Poussaint and Alexander trace the culturual factors that inhibit Blacks from seeking any type of medical treatment, let alone the much stigmatized mental health care, and the lack of a concerted response by white health care professionals.  Most importantly, however, they ask us to look again at drug abuse, gang-banging, and the increase in HIV not as issues of poverty, but instead as medical/mehtal health issues--suggesting that they are in fact examples of suicide attempts that have never before been evaluated as such.  Intervention is possible, and Poussaint and Alexander cite a number of ways that our national health care system and health care professionals may offer help, while noting the programs and policies that have already begun to make a difference.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Why Blacks kill Blacks]]>
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    <![CDATA[Faith of Our Fathers: African-American Men Reflect on Fatherhood]]>
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    <![CDATA[Perhaps the most powerful and formative force in a man's life is his father. In this celebration of black fatherhood, a rich selection of African-American authors explores the relationship between fathers and sons in all its diversity and complexity. Contributors include Henry Louis Gates, Cornel West, Charles Ogletree, and nine others.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Black Child Care]]>
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