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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Commemoration
The Director and Board of Trustees of The Newark Public Library cordially invite you to our annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Commemoration
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Keynote Speaker Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. "The Media’s Impact on Children and Society" Thursday, January 18, 2007 Centennial Hall |
A reception will follow.
Please reserve by January 16th @ 973-733-7793.
Financial support for this program was generously provided by The Prudential Foundation.
Dr. Alvin Poussaint currently serves as Director of the Media Center at the Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston and as a professor of psychiatry and faculty associate dean for student affairs at Harvard Medical School. Early in his career, from 1965 to 1967, he served as Southern Field Director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in Jackson, Mississippi, providing medical care to civil rights workers and aiding in the desegregation of health facilities throughout the southern United States. In 1969, he joined Harvard University where he served as director of student affairs at Harvard Medical School from 1975 to 1978. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and a fellow of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. He is also National Director of the Lee Salk Center at KidsPeace and a member of KidsPeace’s National Advisory Panel for Prevention Services. Dr. Poussaint’s contributions to television include serving as a consultant for The Cosby Show and currently working as an educational consultant for the popular Nickelodeon series Little Bill.