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"It took 100 years to set Black women and men apart from each other, but it has happened and the question now before us is. . .What are we willing to do about it?"
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Susan Taylor,
The State of Black America 2008: In the Black Woman's Voice
Hey everyone, it's Hill Harper, and I am writing you today because I NEED YOUR HELP
!
The statistics are startling: In 1966, more than 80% of African American children were being raised in two-parent households; in 2006, that number had plummeted to 31%
Or, get this: 70%
of Black professional women are single
Smart, successful women with no suitors?! What’s going on?
If we don't start addressing the issues between Black men and Black women, we will bear witness to the destruction of the Black family. I won’t stand by and be silent.
It’s so important to me that I’ve written an entire book on the topic. The Conversation
, will be hitting bookstore shelves this TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH!
My goal is to host a city-to-city tour of FREE
town halls where we can all come together and have a real conversation about what's really going on. I want single folks, married folks—young and old—to courageously let their voices be heard around this topic that is often discussed on talk radio or afternoon TV shows, but rarely taken on face-to-face within our communities.
AND, I want singles to have the opportunity to mix and mingle at these town halls. Let’s connect singles together in every
city we visit! Let's have a relevant Conversation and have fun together!
It’s no secret that a tour like this one—free of charge to its attendees—would be expensive and require corporate sponsorship dollars. I must prove to the prospective sponsors that this issue is important to us all. How do we do that? I can prove that we care about this issue by sharing high book pre-sale and first week sale numbers with them. And by tracking what area of the country the sales come from, we can be sure to schedule the tour cities for those areas.
I AM ASKING YOU TO SHOW THAT YOU CARE!
We all have to join The Conversation
and begin to work on these relationship issues. Take a look at this quick video of some individuals describing some of the issues they face while in a relationship:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oggkZCturUc
Thank you so much
for all of your support and please FORWARD
this email to all of your friends and family - this is a movement!
Let’s do this together,
Hill Harper
Pre-order THE CONVERSATION
at a 25% discount from Barnes & Noble
. You can also order from
Amazon, or Borders. And be sure to visit www.theconversationonline.com
to see when I'm in a town near you!
 P.
S. I'm humbled and honored that The Conversation is the FIRST non-fiction book chosen by the Essence Book Club! That's exactly what The Conversation is all about...Black men and women working together!!
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