Joy Keys chats with Author Terrie M. Williams about Black Pain
This week on "Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys"-podcast chat with Author/Activist Terrie M. Williams about African Americans dealing with depression.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, October 12, 2010
Black Pain with Author Terrie M. Williams---------------------------------------------------------
DATE: Saturday October 16, 2010
TIME: 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT
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Special Guest: Terrie M. Williams, one of Ebony magazine's "Power 150" for Activism and Woman's Day magazine "50 Women On A Mission To Change The World," is an advocate for change and empowerment. She has utilized her influence and communications expertise for more than 30 years to educate and engage audiences in causes that affect the community, the nation and the world.
She launched The Terrie Williams Agency in 1988 with superstar Eddie Murphy and the late jazz legend Miles Davis as her first clients. Since then, her agency has developed and implemented public relations and communications strategies for some of the biggest personalities and businesses in entertainment, sports, business and politics.
As an author, Williams has written four successful books and countless articles. Her first book, The Personal Touch: What You Really Need to Succeed in Today's Fast-paced Business World (1994, Warner Books), is a perennial business bestseller. Her second book, Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens (Scholastic, Inc., 2001), has been utilized in school curricula and was the catalyst to launch The Stay Strong Foundation, a national non-profit for youth. A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through The Seven Living Virtues (Warner Books, 2002), is her undertaking to help others achieve balance in their daily lives. Terrie's latest work, a book entitled Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting ( Scribner 2008) reveals her personal struggles with depression and the impact the stigma of this and other mental illnesses have particularly on the African-American community.
The public discourse generated by Williams' book Black Pain and her Foundation's creation of a national mental health advocacy campaign, "Healing Starts With Us," led to a collaboration with Grey Worldwide, the volunteer advertising agency for the Ad Council's and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Campaign for Mental Health Recovery. She was asked to serve as co-executive producer and a national spokesperson for SAMHSA's and the Ad Council's public service announcement campaign targeting mental health awareness. The campaign is titled, "Share Ourselves...Healing Starts With Us" and builds on her Foundation's work. The public service ads launched February 2010.
Check out http://www.thestaystrongfoundation.org
Video clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDD7foNyEV4
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Special Co-Host: Author Bill Holmes- Bill Holmes (www.billholmes.com) Bill is the founder, the publisher and the CEO of Universal Expressions, LLC, a publishing company that allows artists the opportunity to achieve their aesthetic dreams. He is also the author of the chapbook Illuminations, the spoken word EP Asphyxiation, the full-length poetry book Straight From My Heart, and the spoken word CD, The Air I Breathe, and the ESSENCE best selling fiction novel One Love. His work has been published and featured in the Philadelphia Tribune, ESSENCE, and the anthologies Journey Into My Brother's Soul, Erogenous Zone: A Sexual Voyage and Step Up To The Mic: A Poetic Explosion.
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