ATLANTA \u2013 A young, idealistic and dedicated professor, at Emory University has launched a nationwide grassroots campaign to empower African-American men.<\/p>\n
Dr. Gregory Ellison<\/b>, 36, an assistant professor in the theology faculty, kicked off the initiative on Saturday in Emory\u2019s Center for Ethics. The program, titled Fearless Dialogues, included live music, spoken word poetry, and Dr. Ellison <\/b>reading extracts from his new book to a packed audience. The event, which was free and open to the public, brought together a team of experts from parents, ministers, educators, counselors, elected officials and community activists.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing like this that supports this type of conversation with thought leaders in the community,\u201d says scholar and first-time author Dr. Elliso<\/b>n. As part of the program, participants were divided into smaller groups to grapple with pressing issues facing Black American youth.<\/p>\n
The main focus for their conversations was excerpts from Dr. Ellison\u2019s <\/b>Cut Dead but Still Alive: Caring for African American Young Men<\/em>. The book chronicles the real life stories of six young African-American men Ellison<\/b> encountered working as a counselor. He charts their development from a sense of feeling invisible to gaining understanding about themselves and the world around them.<\/p>\n \u201cThe crux of my work is serving those who are invisible and giving a voice to the muted,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ATLANTA \u2013 A young, idealistic and dedicated professor, at Emory University has launched a nationwide grassroots campaign to empower African-American men. Dr. Gregory Ellison, 36, an assistant professor in the theology faculty, kicked off the initiative on Saturday in Emory\u2019s Center for Ethics. The program, titled Fearless Dialogues, included live music, spoken word poetry, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}