Events

  “Right temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” Martin Luther King Jr.  It is after midnight and I have returned home from an exhausting but memorable journey.  The day started with a road trip to South Carolina to speak at the Anderson County Ministers Organizations annual MLK celebration.  I volunteered to speak on behalf of the United Negro College Fund.  I listened to the Youth Choir sing and stood with the audience as we sang the Black National Anthem together.  As I waited my turn to speak my thoughts drifted back to earlier in the day and the inauguration of  President Barack Hussein Obama.  I listened to an older and liberated Commander and Chief who, from all appearances, was finally having his say. I was struck by the...

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No matter who you are, or what your beliefs, no one can deny the tender stirrings each of us feels every single time we hear Nat King Cole Sing “The Christmas Song: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.”  It’s not just the song, or even the words.It is the spirit embodied by that melodious and unmistakable voice which moves us all; regardless of our backgrounds, experience, class or race, music indeed ‘levels’ the playing field because it is a language that everyone can understand.  Like prayer, whether performed by kneeling, bowing or standing, with hands clasped together, or palms facing upward, whether they are said in silence, whispered, spoken or sung they communicate the same sense of devotion and faith.  Those that engage in worship may do so in...

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Honored to be featured guest speaker along with Dr. Wade Nobles and Dr. Leonard Jeffries at the Education Summit in October.

Joy is a keynote speaker at the Courageous Conversations Summit 2012 happening today!

Honest and direct conversations about race are long overdue.  For some the conversation is new and challenging and for others it is an everyday fact of life, both necessary and on-going.  Our history is filled with men and women that have advanced the discussion about race, racism and structural inequalities.  They have been ex-slaves and ex-slave owners, they have been poor and wealthy, educated and illiterate, all having advanced the conversation in their own way and suffered the consequences for broaching the topic. Today those of us able to see through the sterile manufactured “diversity” misled populace, have begun to challenge the conventional thinking regarding institutional racism and its attendant destructiveness.  Glenn Singleton has addressed...

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 The Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum 800 Cherokee Avenue SE Atlanta, GA For more information, please see go to this site: http://atlantablackstar.com/2012/08/22/atlanta-cyclorama-presents-slavery-the-civil-war-and-african-american-mental-health-video/

            Join Dr. Joy in San Jose Friday June 15th.