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On October 20th, 2016, 91香蕉视频成人在线 took yet another courageous step into the future as we celebrated the inauguration of our pioneering Black Mental Health Graduate Academy and our induction of 16 Academy Scholars. The Academy, developed under the auspices of the Center for Multicultural & Global Mental Health, represents 91香蕉视频成人在线's commitment to reducing racial/ethnic disparities and diversifying the mental health workforce. The Academy is designed to provide critical mentorship, career orientation, skill building, and professional enrichment to talented Black students pursuing Master鈥檚 and Doctoral degrees in mental health counseling and psychology.

The Academy鈥檚 Inaugural Dinner, attended by a diverse group of students, professors, administrative staff members, and community members was replete with emotional expressions of pride, joy, and hope. Dr. Natalie A. Cort, Director of the Black Mental Health Initiative & Graduate Academy, used her opening remarks to acknowledge the historical oppression of people of color and the resultant contemporary inequities. She remarked that the lives of many individuals attending the dinner 鈥溾��are indelibly marked by brutality. Brutality and assault of beautiful black bodies鈥�brutality and assault of brilliant minds鈥�brutality and assault of rich lands鈥�and brutal systematic attempts to be made invisible.鈥� Dr. Cort shared with personal and painful awareness that her use of the name 鈥楥ort,鈥� gives 鈥溾��voice, legitimacy, and life to long dead men who owned, degraded, defiled my ancestor mother and father,鈥� therefore the world鈥檚 history of the enslavement of Africans, is not a part of her past as it has always defined her life. Dr. Cort communicated to the 鈥溾��generous, kind, and committed鈥� scholars that they are 鈥溾��the perfect representations of their [ancestors] beautiful dreams,鈥� and that those ancestors 鈥溾��have paid for us. They have already sacrificed everything鈥�their bodies鈥�their blood for this moment.鈥� She ended her remarks by encouraging the attendees to remember and give thanks to 鈥溾��those ancestor mothers and fathers鈥� whose tears and screams, whose despair and moments of hopelessness are repaid in full by our excellence, by our commitment to kindness, and our rejection of casual cruelty.鈥�

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