Week of January 25, 2017 Vol 51 • No 45 •
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YOUNG BLACKS BENEFIT FROM HPV VACCINE, EXPERTS SAY
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Dewayne Bryant (center) is an accomplished Chicago motivational speaker and CEO of Inner Vision International, a not-forprofit organization that travels the country talking to children in public schools. Bryant is adamant about parents having a real discussion with children about how to properly handle law enforcement. He has mentored more than 15,000 children nationwide. Photo Credit: Barb Levant
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER OFFERS STUDENTS ‘REAL TALK’ ON LAW ENFORCEMENT By Safiyyah P. Muhammad
D ewayne Bryant is a Chicago motivational speaker who is on a mission to teach young people all across the country how to properly and respectfully handle law enforcement. Bryant, who is CEO of Inner Vision International, explained that in light of the Justice Department’s recent misconduct findings, parents and caregivers should have a real discussion with students and youths about properly handling law enforcement. “It is so important right now to have an intelligent conversation with them (youths) because I hate to say
it, many of these young people are not having intelligent conversations coming from their homes. Children are having conversations, but they are not intelligent conversations. You cannot talk to the police or teachers and treat them as if they are your peers. When children get terrible information from home, they enact terrible information,” said Bryant, adding, there should be a mandatory conversation about properly handling law enforcement on the local and state levels. “These conversations must be done in the proper way and with role play-- with elementary students and > SEE MORE PAGE 2
Higher rates of cancers associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV) occur in African Americans compared to Whites, according to a nationally renowned physician Dr. Alison Moriarty Daley. While some Black parents have concerns about vaccines for HPV including that their children are too young to even consider sex, health experts say that the vaccine – particularly Gardasil 9 – does more than help prevent the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). “It’s a safe and effective form of cancer prevention,” said Daley of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, an organization with is headquarters in New York. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States, Daley and other health experts said. > SEE MORE PAGE 2
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