TIME: 2:00 PM EST/ 11:00 AM PST
Conference Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85845354181
With: Monroe Howard, MSW, MPA
What Mask are you wearing? This seminar will explore the roles of men in Black culture, and how we can facilitate community healing using tools such as communication, vulnerability, and self-awareness.
We Wear the Mask
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
Paul Laurence. Dunbar, "“We Wear the Mask.”" from The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, )