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‘GODFATHER OF BLACK PSYCHOLOGY’ TO SPEAK AT COMMUNITY DINNER

By Wes Clement/OF THE COMMERCIAL STAFF
Saturday, March 7, 2009 10:44 PM CST

The first Pine Bluff Community Dinner, entitled “It Takes a Village,” will be held March 14, allowing residents a chance to socialize and hear the thoughts of a man referred to by some as the “Godfather of Black Psychology.”

Dr. Joseph L. White, Ph.D., professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine, will be the guest speaker. The focus of the event is the strengthening of the African-American family and community.

A social hour with cocktails and live music at the Ramada Plaza, 2 Convention Center Plaza, will begin at 6 p.m. followed by the dinner from 7-10 p.m. Tickets are being sold for $30.

White has worked for the past 47 years as a teacher, mentor, administrator and practicing psychologist. He has authored several books such as “The Psychology of Blacks: An African-American Perspective,” “The Troubled Adolescent” and “Black Men Emerging: Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in America.”

Cherie Collins-Sims, an independent clinical social worker and Ph.D. candidate, will also speak at the dinner.

Collins-Sims has worked as a psychotherapist and has been on the faculty of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Department of Psychiatry at New Orleans and Augsburg College at Minneapolis.

The event is sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, InSideOut Inc., Dianne’s Adult Health Day Care, Sessilee’s Catering and The Commercial.

For ticket information, contact Lula Dickson at 879-3933 or Classie Green at 550-4553. Tickets may also be purchased from event organizer Andre Sims, (612) 987-1017.

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