COME OUT TONIGHT, FOLKS to THE Arthur Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture in HARLEM to see YOU ARE NOT ALONE (SHOWTIME: 6P)! BACK-STORY: Sometime last year, I got an invitation from my BFF Sidra Smith (Producer, Free Angela – Sho...la Lynch documentary on Angela Davis) to come to her Harlem pad and enjoy our mutual friend, novelist/actor/stage director and – in this instance – film director Stanley Bennett Clay’s latest project “YOU ARE NOT ALONE” – the brainchild of Guyanese-born, double NYABJ-Award-winner/journalist/national gay mental health activist Antoine B. Craigwell. Both were in attendance that night as a small group took in the documentary about Black gay men dealing with depression. It is a combination of powerful, heart-wrenching, and poignant as it marries professional opinions provided by mental health professionals, academics, and religious leaders (Christian and Islam) to beautifully-woven docu-dramatized iconography (as directed pointedly by Stanley Bennett Clay). So when my friend, mental health advocate and author Terrie M. Williams (Founder/President of The Terrie Williams Agency & "Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting”) asked me to be a panelist for "Terrie Williams Presents: You Are Not Alone", I jumped at the chance. The film screening and panel discussion take place TONIGHT at The Schomburg Center for the Research of the African Diaspora. Black gay men dealing with depression should know, like all of us, we are nothing without our emotional and mental health. Declaring who we are is healthy—not doing so is a very painful experience, and no one should ever have to live this way. Including me, our panelists for the evening are: Lee Daniels (Academy Award nominated film director for the movie Precious & The Butler) Antoine Craigwell (journalist and producer of You Are Not Alone) Dr. Jeff Gardere (television personality, and practicing psychologist) Nathan Hale Williams (film and television producer, and entertainment attorney) Tanya Odums (Assistant Principal) The panel discussion will be held in the Library’s auditorium. Here is some important information. Date: Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 6pm Location: Langston Hughes Auditorium, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard @ W.135th Street
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:07:53 +0000