How to Heal from Abuse: Virtue Today Magazine Provides a Healing for Women

Along with this issue, Virtue Today Magazine launched the "Protectors of Virtue Campaign," the goal of which is to educate women and men about the signs of domestic violence and sexualabuse and provide resources for them. The logo, which features the slogan "More Valuable than Silver and Gold," depicts a man holding a woman and child as if they are in a jewelry box. Virtue Today's goal is to turn "pain into progress," uplift the value of family and provide a healing to every woman and child who has ever been abused. The movie Precious may show the pain, but Virtue Today provides the healing. Read more...

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OPINION: Depression in the Black Community – Why it is a Serious Problem

Dr. Boyce Watkins

Depression in the black community is a serious issue, but is long neglected by many of us. According to the National Institute for Mental Health, 54 percent of all Americans consider depression to be a personal weakness. While I am not one to distinguish between the cases where depression is imagined or chemically-based, I can certainly argue that it is a problem. It is also a huge personal challenge,
regardless of the source.

Personally, I was severely depressed in high school. The depression stemmed from self-esteem issues and a lack of guidance. My older brother figure was in and out of prison, so the lack of mentorship, along with typical challenges of high school, made me nearly suicidal. I then found that a simple commitment to optimistic thinking got rid of my depression for good. Read more...

Stillbirth Risk Higher For Black Women

African-American women are twice as likely to suffer a late-pregnancy loss as white women -- partly because of higher rates of pregnancy- and labor-related complications, a government study finds.

Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that among more than 5 million pregnancies in 2001 and 2002, black women were more likely than white or Hispanic women to have a stillbirth.

Among African Americans, 22 of every 1,000 pregnancies ended in a stillbirth. That compared with 10 and 10.5 per 1,000 among white and Hispanic women, respectively. Read more...

Black Male Unemployment Comparable to 'Great Depression', Says Economic Expert

by Pharoh Martin

While the nation is reeling over double-digit jobless rates showing up for the first time in decades, Black males are looking at numbers almost twice as worse.

Almost one in five Black men 20-years-old or older are without a job, according to figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics earlier this month.

The seasonally-adjusted October unemployment rate for Black males is above 17 percent whereas the jobless rate for White adult males and females is under double digits at 9.5 percent and 7.4 percent, respectively. At 12.4 percent, joblessness for Black women also skews above the national rate, which is currently at 10.2 percent, approaching the December 1982 level of 10.8 percent.  Read more...

Report: Minority, Female Writers in TV Still Underrepresented

by Kate Stanhope

Female and minority writers are still underrepresented in television, according to the statistics released Wednesday by the Writers Guild of America.

In the 2009 Hollywood Writers Report, the guild shows that women's employment in TV has remained at 28 percent from 2005 to 2007 while minority groups' share of employment declined 10 percent to 9 percent.

Among minorities, Asian TV writers' employment increased the most (from 24 people to 54) and African-American writers took the biggest hit (from 168 to 143).  Read more...

The Psychological and Genetic Roots of Violence (Part II)

By Harry R. Davidson, Ph.D

Marijuana, music and video games are potentially Mind Controlling agents. Mind control is also referred to as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, and thought reform. It refers to a broad range of psychological methods and processes thought to subvert an individual's control of his or her own thoughts, behaviors, emotions, or decision-making. Brainwashing and mind control theories originally developed to explain how the enemy indoctrinated their people using mind control techniques. Drugs and chemicals were also experimented with. The Nazis were heavily involved in such methods. Ecstasy was routinely given to the soldiers to keep them overly violent. What is not widely known is the fact that following the war, Nazi scientists infiltrated the American Psychiatric community, many becoming leaders.

In previous articles I have used the term Psychoneuro Linquistic Programming that is a powerful scientific alteration of hypnosis. These methods can also be conveyed through drugs, music and video games because they have the power to effectively capture and control one's mental processes. Hypnosis is normally preceded by a “hypnotic induction” technique. There exists an enormous variety of different induction techniques used in hypnotism. Music can affect the human mind, dramatically swaying our emotions and evoking memories. Video games have the same potential. Music can have a powerful influence on regions of the brain responsible for language, feelings, movement, and other unrelated systems. It can also dramatically effect one's emotions. Music can produce both positive emotions and negative ones. Much of today's controversial music has been linked to anger, depression, violence and even suicide.  Read more...

Farrakhan: Black America must change to survive

The leader of the Nation of Islam began a major lecture series, “The Time and What Must Be Done,” by using scripture, current events, social conditions and, at times humor, in a poignant warning about the need to change to avoid divine chastisement as an old world goes out and a new reality begins to come into existence.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan stressed November 15 that change was mandatory, and no one would be exempt from a universal change on the horizon.

“When you use the definite article ‘the,' it's a particular time, no other time like it, it's ‘The Time.' Today I would like to give you a capsule of the time, which is a period between two events, the beginning of this world is the first event and the end of this world, which is the second event,” he said. “When it says what must be done, there is no other choice. It is an absolute necessity that when you know The Time, you have to make up your mind to act in accord with the time or you will be destroyed from the face of the earth.”  Read more...