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Dr. Naim Akbar Lecture

Dr. Na'im Akbar lecture

Host DeeDee Sharp interviews clinical psychologist, educator and author Dr. Na'im Akbar. Essence Magazine proclaimed him as one of the world's preeminent psychologists and a pioneer in the development of an African-centered approach to modern psychology.

Dr. Akbar has served as associate professor at Norfolk State University, was chairman of Morehouse College's Psychology Department and is currently on the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Florida State University. He has served on numerous boards, including the National Association of Black Psychologists, and also served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Black Psychology. He was the recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Scholar Award. He has been written about in numerous national and international publications & magazines, and has been interviewed on numerous TV shows, including Tony Brown's Journal, The Geraldo Show and the Oprah Winfrey Show.

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In this 1987 episode of Detroit Black Journal, Dr. Tyrone Tilory and Dr. Robert Newby trace the psychological trauma inflicted upon African American's to the slave period of American history and the emphasis that was then put on establishing the total inferiority of the slave. They say that history lingers in the difficulty many African Americans have with low self-esteem and the disregard American society shows toward black people.

Harriet A. Washington, MA, ethicist and author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation from Colonial Times to the Present, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, will outline the historical roots of racial mistreatment in the U.S. medical research arena. She discusses contemporary challenges to ethical research and health care, from the elision of informed consent to the neoeugenic policies, through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This event was held as part of the "Racism, Medicine, and Bioethics" event series in honor of Black History Month, 2021. Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care partnered in organizing this series to examine the history of racism in medicine, its impact on Black individuals and the Black community, and to gather solutions for a healthier future from experts and thought leaders in history, health policy and law, social justice, and public health and medicine.

Learn more: https://bioethics.hms.harvard.....edu/events/black-his

Lewis & Clark's 15th Annual Ray Warren Symposium “Bitter Pills: Race, Health, and Medicine,” was held November 7–9, 2018.

On November 7, Deirdre Cooper Owens, associate professor of history at Queens College, CUNY, gave this keynote presentation titled “How Modern Medicine Was Born of Slavery.”

Presentation description: Cooper Owens explains how the institution of American slavery was directly linked to the creation of reproductive medicine in the U.S. She provides context for how and why physicians denied black women their full humanity, yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for experimentation. In engaging with 19th-century ideas about so-called racial difference, she sheds light on the contemporary legacy of medical racism.

Welcoming remarks and introductions by Maya Hernández and Jasmine Torres, L&C ’19 and RWS co-chairs.

https://college.lclark.edu/pro....grams/ethnic_studies

Featured Speaker: Harriet A. Washington, Medical Ethicist, Award-Winning Medical Writer and Editor.

This video clip was recorded on March 07, 2017 during the “Women's History Month 2017: Women of Vision” Event, featuring Harriet A. Washington (Award-Winning Author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present”; “Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself–And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future”; and “Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We “Catch” Mental Illness”), at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 East Warren Avenue, Detroit, MI.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.thewright.org/index.....php/component/itsoc
http://www.greatertalent.com/harrietwashington/
http://nyam.org/events/event/i....nfectious-madness-we
https://www.c-span.org/video/?....313990-11/open-phone
https://www.c-span.org/video/?....305728-1/deadly-mono
https://www.c-span.org/video/?....313990-5/panel-discu
https://www.c-span.org/video/?....328703-4/harriet-was
https://www.amazon.com/Harriet....-A.-Washington/e/B00
https://www.commentarymagazine.....com/articles/medica
https://www.democracynow.org/2....011/10/31/deadly_mon

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Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African American professors at the University of Chicago.

The Annual George E. Kent Lecture is organized and sponsored by the Organization of Black Students, the Black Student Law Association, and the Students for a Free Society.

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