Kyren Lacy was a 6-foot-2 Southeastern Conference football player with a broad, if often absent, smile, a love for Buffalo Wild Wings and lemonade. Some sports analysts even predicted that the Louisiana State University senior might go to a National Football League team as early as the second round of the draft this year. Instead, […] The post Kyren Lacy’s Death at 24 Sheds Light on Black Male Suicide Crisis appeared first on Capital B News.| Capital B News
*portions of this piece were first published in the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s “The Village” Blog on December 15, 2014 “We have no need for your sympathy. We welcome your empathy. We require neither to grow into the highest versions of human being Creator would intend us to become.” This morning I was burdened by […] The post The Truth About Sympathy, Empathy & Race in America (Version 2.0) appeared first on Dr. Juneau Robbins.| Dr. Juneau Robbins
“Part of the work of joy, the essence of play, is to learn how to surrender to the moment. To be present.” Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, Black Joy Play Book| K E Garland