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Jharrel Jerome's Win for Portrayal in “When They See Us” is a Win for Black Mental Health Advocacy
Jharrel Jerome recently earned an Emmy award for his outstanding portrayal of Korey Wise in Ava DuVernay's Netflix series “When They See...
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Actor and Survivor Hosea Chanchez Speaks Out Against Sexual Abuse
Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse Last month, actor and director Hosea Chanchez shared a powerful post on instagram describing his childhood...
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Meet Gordon Shadrach
These portraits are calling out dangerous assumptions about the way black men are seen. “Is a black man who’s well dressed, in a suit —...
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Recognized for Her Portraits of Black Men, Jordan Casteel ‘Paints Her Community’
AFTER DEVOTING A SUMMER in Gloucester, Mass., to landscape painting, Jordan Casteel decided to start making portraits of black men. The...
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How Barbers Are Getting Black Men Talking About Mental Health
If clients trust you with their hair, then they trust you with what’s going on inside their mind. -Stephan “Step the Barber” Swearingen
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LOCAL BARBERS BECOME MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WFFT) - Lorenzo Lewis, Executive Director of The Confess Project, is teaming up with Parkview Health, Purdue University...
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Barbershop Confessions in the Big Easy
Barbershop Confession in the Big Easy -- Meet Lorenzo Lewis, founder of The Confess Project, and learn how he uses barbershops across...
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Non-Profit to Help African American Men Talk About Social & Emotional Issues
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- One Little Rock man is helping African American men fight depression one barbershop at a time. Lorenzo Lewis started...
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These barbers are learning how to be counselors while cutting hair
A barber shop is not only a place African American men go to get cleaned up, it can also be a place where they meet to talk about what’s...
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Visionary of the Year
Visionary of the Year award Lorenzo Lewis says his narrow escape from the school-to-prison pipeline was a testament to the importance of...
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