The Conqueror Review presents Victim Victorious A Fivepart Series on Mental Health in the Black Community



GreeneInk.com LLC, publisher of The Conqueror & Review, announces the publishing of a five-part series on spirituality and mental health in the Afrimerican community called "Victim Victorious."

It is written to landmark the 37th year since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death and to prepare hearts and minds for the 38th through 40th years that are upcoming.

Based on the story of the children of Israel who, after Moses led them forth out of bondage in Egypt, wandered in the wilderness for 40 years; it outlines the story of the tests of faith they experienced before they were brought into the Promised Land. The series points its arrow of truth toward the variances of spirit in those who brought mass hysteria to the people about "giants in the land" and Joshua's camp, who told the people not to fear the giants because the Lord was their guide and protector.

In this format, the series will address several of the underlying causes of the spiritual and mental health issues that plague Americans of African descent in the new millennium and involves interviews that feature several mental health counselors and professionals, including Dr. Steven B. DavidSon, founder of christbasedcounseling.org and Daniel D. Hardman, author of "Essays from Church" at edincorporated.com. The series is scheduled to debut on the Conqueror & Review e-zine at http://www.greeneink.com on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005, at noon. Part I will look into the individual spiritual mindset and Part II will delve into the group psyche on which African Americans relate to one another on a daily basis.

In the nearly 40 years since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the icons of the height of the Civil Rights Movement, many blacks acknowledge that even though many gains and strides have been made for individuals; the black collective community has never been empowered to stand on its own. Bread is still begged at the gates of the very system that once used its laws to destroy a race once it was no longer of use to those who mattered in society. If not for Dr. King and numerous, countless other 'sung and unsung' heroes and heroines - the black, people of colors, African American, Afrocentric, and African American communities of America would not exist in the USA as it is known today.

If the recurring incidences of racial profiling; astronomical amounts of prisons rather than private schools and places of learning being built in black neighborhoods; missing corporate conglomerates that can only be built by a teaming effort; and the ever-mounting negative news in the mass media, just to name a few, isn't enough to convince the community that it is long overdue for restructuring, then nothing will. The progress made by the strides of the Civil Rights Movement will be lost forever.

The continuing saga at the core of the collective community has been told ad infinitum. The question now is, "Where are the true champions of the unfinished business that was left behind in the late 1960s" While the individual has gained much, much is still amiss in the proverbial 'Village.' In the final analysis, if the Americans of Afrocentric descent do not heed the handwriting on the wall, there will be mass losses, once again, on the final opportunities to empower the black community as never before - opportunities that lay only within the community itself.

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The Conqueror & Review, a new media publication at www.greeneink.com seeks to infuse a fresh, life-giving perspective on the lives of the African Americans who went before us, those who are here now, and those who will come in the future.

Note the following statistics (excerpted from The San Francisco Sun-Reporter, Feb. 2005):

Black newspapers are trusted as the primary or only source of news for more Blacks, according to a survey by Gemstone Communications and the Ethnic Print Media Group. The survey noted that 66 percent of Blacks turn to Black-owned newspapers and news media first for news.

The readership study of 110 Black newspapers was the first of its kind. The report also noted that only 12 percent of Blacks subscribe to a daily or white-owned newspaper and 72 percent buy products or services they see in Black-owned newspapers.

The report included interviews with 15,000 readers of Black newspapers. Many Blacks were critical of the white mass media for seemingly only reporting negative news about Blacks, such as crime, while ignoring or downplaying more positive images or events in the Black community.

Black papers won high marks for reporting on communities overlooked by the main press. The National Newspaper Publishers Association, based in Washington, D.C., has said the nation's 220 Black newspapers have often struggled to win more ads, but they remain "effective" sources to reach Black readers that are often targeted by major companies looking to improve their bottom lines.

Contact:
Min. S R Greene
The Conqueror & Review
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The Conqueror Review presents Victim Victorious A Fivepart Series on Mental Health in the Black Community