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Up Close with Hill HarperDr. Barika Butler-Quarlesweighs in on the Jovan Belcher tragedy

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INSIDE...[Entertainment]04Larry Callahan & selected of GOD CD release

[Community]05Is he a threater to himself and/or others?

[Essentials]06Kids 07Women’s 08Men’s

[Cover Story]10 Up Close and With Hill Harper

[Relationship Advice]13 Ending On Again - Off Again Relationships

[Entertainment]14 Elijah Connor is back with Sorry I

15 A nostal-ic journey with Mo-siac Players troupe

[Weekly Guide]16 The Hottest Events around Town

[Classifieds]18 Job, Seminars, Workshops

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Larry Callahan & Selected of God CD Release

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This is the question that mental health and medical profession-als tackle when deciding how to treat a patient who is strug-gling with medical disorders affecting their mental health

and well -being. Medical disorders? Yes. Diagnoses like depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depressive), anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder are medical illnesses, not unlike diabetes, high blood pres-sure or cancer.

Although it remains a work in progress in the African Ameri-can community to promote awareness and ensure that people are seeking treatment for the above mentioned medical conditions, we have made progress. We know that we must exercise, monitor our cholesterol and fat intake, stop smoking and perform self breast ex-ams. Your sister may ask you when you had your last mammogram and your brother when you last checked your blood sugar. But when was the last time anyone asked you how you were feeling with your moods and how you were handling your stress? Who do you think took the time to ask young Black men like Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher how he was coping with life?

Murder-suicides happen. Within the Black commu-nity there is a sense that “things like that” happen else-where, that those are “them, not us” issues. According to the Centers for Disease Control, depression affects at least one in 10 adults and is highest in young adults 25-44 years old. The next time you are at a major sporting event or a nightclub, count off one of every 10 people that you see and you will be faced with how staggering de-pression and mental illness is. This is not one in 10 White Americans, not one in 10 women. This is one in 10 of all people. And the numbers are likely higher given that so many never recognize or seek treatment for mental ill-ness. Why?

In my practice, I am always pleasantly surprised to see minority patients walk through the door seeking help for their emotional struggles. As I ask every one of them about their family history, I receive answers like “my grandmother was crazy” or “I had an uncle that drank himself to death.” And there’s the phantom fam-ily members in our community who just disappear and are referred to as the “aunt with the issues.” So many of these cases were likely undiagnosed mental illness. Men-

tal illness knows no color, no cultural bounds, no age and no financial status. An NFL starting linebacker or a DPS high school senior with mental illness is real and is in the Black community. The stigma associated with being “crazy” and not seeing help is killing us. We are losing our mothers, brothers, fathers children to these over-looked, underdiagnosed and misunderstood diseases of the mind. The next time you see a sister or brother strug-gling, encourage them to seek help. Talk with someone about the loneliness, despair, hopelessness and sadness that may be plaguing your life. Sure, you can’t draw blood and measure your depression level but trained mental health professionals and doctors can diagnose and treat with therapy or medications, and change your life for the better. It is time that we recognize that our community is not immune to diseases of the mind and that these are not just feelings that will go away. Like any major illness, you must recognize the signs and seek help quickly. We cannot afford to have any more of our own die need-lessly. What happened in Kansas City is a tragedy and unfortunately not an isolated one. It is time for us to stop shaking our heads and thinking that it can never happen

to us. After all, it just did.

Signs of depression:

- Depressed, sad or irritable mood

- Loss of interest in things that would generally bring joy

- Decrease or increase in sleep, trouble falling asleep or waking up in the middle of the night

- Change in appetite

- Guilt

- Lack of energy

- Difficulty concentrating

- Feeling physically slowed down

- Feeling helpless, hopeless

- Thoughts or attempts at harming yourself or others

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

Is he a threat to himself and/or others?

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Up Close with Hill Harper

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By Leslie J. Griffin

You know him as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes on NBC’s CSI: NY. He is the relentless crime fighting doctor who stops at nothing to solve the most gruesome crimes. You’ve also applauded his

performances in films such as Get On The Bus, For Colored Girls, He Got Game, The Skulls, Lackawanna Blues and The Sopranos. But there is more to Hill Harper than meets the eye. The hand-some ivy-league Harvard Law School graduate is a New York Times best-selling author and has penned noted works like The Conver-sation, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister. The Wealth Cure: Putting Money In Its Place, his latest literary success, gives an all-inspiring look at the true relationship between wealth and money.

Harper sat down exclusively with FRONTPAGE Detroit to talk about the inspiration behind the book, enduring the fight of his life with thyroid cancer and how people should come to under-stand true wealth. Highly acclaimed by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune and other media giants, Harper continues to makes unprecedented strides through his Manifest Your Destiny Foundation and noted philanthropic successes.

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FPD: Congratulations, Mr. Harper, on an awe-some career. You have entered your ninth sea-son of CSI:NY as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes. Can you tell us about any new plot twists or surprises in this season?

Hill Harper (HH): Thank you. Well, you know it’s always going to be the same. Someone is going to die (laughing) and we will try to solve the murder. I think that’s what people like about the show, that they know what they are going to get in different situations with different types of science being used and various types of evidence being explored. We are pretty consistent and we will continue to solve crimes.

FPD: You’ve penned a new book. How long has The Wealth Cure been in the works and when did you find the time to write?

HH: This book really came up because a lot of the people that I work with through my foundation and through the talks that I give around the country started hearing how so many people were not following their dreams and pas-sions. And the reasons that most people would give for not following their goals was money-related. So I asked if money was the real reason that people were not liv-ing out their passions. And with that, I wanted to ex-plore what our relationship to money was. And through that exploration I felt that our relationship had become flawed. Most people chase money rather than figure out what true wealth is in their lives and actually attempt to acquire wealth. So while working on that book in 2010, I was also diagnosed with thyroid cancer. And it made me take a step back and ask what is true wealth for me. And my answer was my heatlh. At that point, it did not matter how many TV shows I was on or what kind of car I drove or what my house looked like. If I did not have my health, then it means nothing. So those thoughts involved incorporating those different ideas into The Wealth Cure. And the “cure” refers to curing our rela-tionship between wealth and money.

FPD: Cancer was no doubt one of the toughest roles that you’ve had to grapple with. Can you talk about your journey with cancer and how you are doing now?

HH: Well, I had the surgery to remove my thyroid which is called a thyroidectomy. So that was removed and three of my four paren-thyroid glands were also removed and the doctors tell me that I am great and all is good. I feel very blessed, very fortunate and very healthy to be cancer free.

FPD: The Wealth Cure is a very powerful read and in it you discuss more than just having money and bank accounts. Please talk about your decision to begin each chapter with a not-

ed quote.

HH: You know there is so much wisdom already moving around the world that many of us haven’t been exposed to, like, different people and different ideas. So I just like introducing people to new quotes and different ideas and things that they have never heard of before. It just takes people on a different educational path. At the end of the day all of our lives kind of mimic what I present in the book and that’s the idea of a journey in the sense that I physically take a journey to see how people relate to money. Let me say that I hope that I do not in any way try to say that money is not important. It is an important resource in our lives. It just needs to be put in its proper place and perspective.

FPD: You lay out a gamut of important factors with regard to understanding what money is and what wealth is. Are these principles that you learned over time?

HH: Yes. I learned them over time from my family. I was very fortunate. My grandparents on my mother’s side were pharmacists and had their own business. My grandfather on my father’s side was a physician in a small town who had his own medical practice and my fa-ther had his own business.

So the principles were really passed down to me. And I have made my own mistakes with money. I made poor investments and overspent in different areas and so I never represent myself as the expert. In any of my books, I am never the expert. I am just like the reader on a journey trying to figure it out, you know. What are the best practices and what’s the best way for us to live and make better decisions. So I was very honest about the mistakes that I have made and I am sure I will make more mistakes. But at the same time I can still aspire to be debt free and make better choices.

FPD: Why is this book critical to African Ameri-can men and women?

HH: It is important for a number of reasons. We (in our community) have the least amount of cross-generational wealth transfer per dollar earned. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that our schools are failing and that’s partly because we do not have the wealth base in our communities.

To me, education has always been the cornerstone. I say throughout the book that you cannot be free if the cost of being you is too high. The cost of being ourselves is way too high. I’m not just talking about financial debt but psychological debt and emotional debt, education and incarceration debt. These are things that can weigh on you and will ultimately limit your freedom and your ability to move. And your options become more limited. That’s why having a wealth base is critical.

FPD: The most piercing quote I found in your book was from Benjamin Franklin where he states “your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” Talk about this quote.

HH: I agree with this quote. None of us are perfect and

we are not going to be. I never try to say I have it all to-gether and you have to follow my lead. We are all going to have good habits and bad habits. But when you put it all on the balance sheet, the good ones should definitely outweigh the bad ones.

FPD: You strongly advise the readers to have their own personal board of directors and to manage themselves like they would a business. Please talk about that.

HH: What’s interesting is that a lot of people are very hesitant and resistant to take an honest look at money and there is a lot of shame around money and people are quicker to talk about cheating in a relationship as op-posed to how much they earn. It’s almost unheard of to talk about how much you earn or how much debt you have. No one really wants to address this. So they tend to hide it and keep it a secret. And through the car that they drive or the home they own, they try to make people think that they have it altogether. No one wants to say this is my situation and I need help. And that is what this book is about. curing that mindset. It’s about coming up with options and solutions and complying with them. It’s about doing the maintenance overtime because no one can just become debt-free instantly.

FPD: What do you hope your readers take away from your book?

HH: I hope they will check the book out. It is not the sexist topic in the world where you’re talking about cheating or sex and relationships. It’s about facing some tough situations but at the same time giving solutions to get through them. I hope that people come to the reality that solutions are available.

FPD: You were extremely vocal and active in both elections involving President Barack Obama. What are your thoughts on America’s wealth and how do we impact it?

HH: Well, I will tell you. What makes our country the greatest country in the world is participatory democracy but that only works if people participate. We see the rep-resentatives that we have and we have seen the gridlock and we have seen what has happened. In 2010, we did not participate or show up and we allowed the Congress to shift. Congress basically fought our president com-pletely over the second half of this term trying to keep him from doing anything. And now we are really bearing the brunt of that because they are able to proclaim that he has not been effective. And I still believe that if you look at his four-year record that he’s been incredibly effective. Now, I have been campaigning in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida. I have worked as hard as I could to remind people how important it is to raise their voices and to let them know that every single vote will count.

I just read an interesting article that states there are $21 trillion U.S. sitting in off shore (financial institutions) overseas. Just think if that $21T was in our banks how many people who need loans could get loans for their small businesses. So times have changed and we have to recognize how money has changed.

By Leslie J. Griffin

You know him as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes on NBC’s CSI: NY. He is the relentless crime fighting doctor who stops at nothing to solve the most gruesome crimes. You’ve also applauded his

performances in films such as Get On The Bus, For Colored Girls, He Got Game, The Skulls, Lackawanna Blues and The Sopranos. But there is more to Hill Harper than meets the eye. The hand-some ivy-league Harvard Law School graduate is a New York Times best-selling author and has penned noted works like The Conver-sation, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister. The Wealth Cure: Putting Money In Its Place, his latest literary success, gives an all-inspiring look at the true relationship between wealth and money.

Harper sat down exclusively with FRONTPAGE Detroit to talk about the inspiration behind the book, enduring the fight of his life with thyroid cancer and how people should come to under-stand true wealth. Highly acclaimed by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune and other media giants, Harper continues to makes unprecedented strides through his Manifest Your Destiny Foundation and noted philanthropic successes.

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By Cornell C. Batie and Leslie J. Griffin

“I recently attended a concert that featured some of my favorite music artists. The excitement was at an all-time high as I waited all week to see them. I immediately stood on my feet and began clapping when the group took the stage. The initial sound was amazing and just like I had imagined. I was really into it then suddenly things began to change. The microphones kept going in and out and it was very hard to hear the songs.

“After a few tweaks the microphones came back on and I welcomed back the amazing sound I initially en-joyed. A few moments later the sound started to go in and out again and it seemed as though the sound engineers could not keep this from happening. There must have been a shortage somewhere. Needless to say, I stayed for the show because money was invested but it did not make for the best concert experience.” (LJG)

This is a very true story and exactly how some of our relationships can be.

How many times do we find ourselves in situations where we are on again and off again with someone? It’s like a never-ending cycle where we go through and en-tertain chronic periods of madness with someone for the sake of being in a relationship because so much time is vested or because we really love them.

We are not speaking of minor challenges that occur in most relationships. We are speaking of well-noted incompatibilities that stick out like a sore thumb and cause strife and restlessness to the point of breaking up over and over and going back to the same situation due to not accepting that the two of you may not work well together.

The following tips can help you and your mate exam-ine your relationship, recognize whether it’s conflict or serious incompatibility and come to terms with what you discover.

Understand and recognize the lack of con-tinuity. Relationships should not resemble light switches. There should be even ebb and flow. If this natural flow is consistently inconsistent, do not be afraid to address it.

Do not point fingers. Finger-pointing never resolves anything and only contributes to increased dis-

sension. Start with fixing self.

Recognize the difference between a charac-teristic you can live with and one you cannot live with.

Know the difference between characteristics that fit you and do not fit you. Look at them for what they are and know that in most cases what you see is what you get.

Be willing to deal with and come to terms with what you discover about your relation-ships and yourself. Knowledge is one thing; action is another.

The things discovered in relationships can be mind-boggling. Be willing to work them out if the goal is to sustain the relationship. Come to agreement in terms of resolve. If they can’t be resolved, work moving toward happiness by bringing your roller-coaster-ride love story to a close.

Finally, be willing to make the hard decisions. Making decisions on whether to continue or pause is never easy especially when time has been invested. Step back from the situation if necessary and understand what’s at stake. Ask yourself the hard questions and be willing to choose harmony with your mate even if that harmony means walking away.

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It’s like a never-ending cycle where we go through and entertain chronic periods of madness with someone for the sake of being in a rela-tionship because so much time is vested or because we really love them.

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By AJ Williams

Elijah Connor has been titled Detroit’s new R&B prince and with the release of his new single, Sor-ry I, the newfound title is not inappropriate at all.

Sorry I has a soulful, sultry sound that is just right for the winter nights that are about to envelop Detroit.

Many know Connor from the Donald Trump reality show Ultimate Merger and in appeared with the late Whitney Houston in the film Sparkle. However, Elijah has journeyed back to his music roots with this single from his upcoming album Who Is Elijah Connor? sched-uled for release in February. For music lovers who won-der where the soul in R&B has gone, this single is what you have been waiting for.

Elijah Connor’s Sorry I is available on iTunes for purchase or request to hear it on your favorite radio sta-tion. Stay in touch with Elijah on Twitter @ElijahConnor and on his Facebook fan page: ElIJAH.

Detroit’s Elijah Connor is back with ‘Sorry I’

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Only the Best: 20 Years of Mosaic Memories is a spe-cial retrospective show featuring scenes and songs from some of the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit’s most be-loved performances of the past two decades.

The energetic production takes audiences on a nos-talgic theatrical journey through performances of Mo-siac’s past. It features scenes and songs from many ot the ensemble’s best performances including Now That I Can Dance, Crossing 8 Mile, Hastings Street, Magni-ficat, What Fools These Mortals Be and many other fa-vorites.

“The purpose of this production is to celebrate the truly great things about Mosaic and what we’ve come to be,” said Rick Sperling, CEO and founder of Mosaic Youth Theatre. “Capturing the magic and history of the past 20 years, Only the Best’ gives the audience a vis-ceral understanding of the diversity, complexity, energy and empowerment embodied by Mosaic’s theatrical and musical art.”

There will be three showings of Only the Best tak-ing place at the Detroit Film Theatre located inside the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Showtimes are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 14 and 15, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16.

A nostal-ic journey with Mosiac Players troupe

Tickets are $22 for general admission and $15 for students and seniors with valid ID. Purchase tickets at the DIA box office or by calling 313-833-4005. (Note: Children under five are not admitted.)

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, founded in 1992, is a non-profit arts and youth development organization dedicated to empowering young people to maximize their potential through professional performing arts training and the creation of theatrical and musical art that engag-es, transforms and inspires.

Mosaic’s production of Only the Best is made pos-sible by generous support from DTE Energy Foundation and its ongoing commitment to the City of Detroit and its young people.

“We cannot thank DTE Energy Foundation, Strategic Staffing Solutions and our other many generous corpo-rate supporters enough for believing in the dreams of our Mosaic young artists, and helping them to achieve those dreams,” said Wendy Kemp, Mosaic’s director of development.

Presented by DTE Energy Foundation, *Only The Best: 20 Years of Mosaic Memories also is made possible with the generous support of JPMorgan Chase Founda-tion, Masco Corporation Foundation, Ford Motor Com-pany Fund, Mercedes Benz Financial, Compuware, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and Stra-tegic Staffing Solutions.

Mosaic announces the launch of its new CD, Aca-pella, in time for the holiday season. The CD, funded entirely by Strategic Staffing Solutions and retailing for $20, contains clips from Mosiac’s popular perfor-mances over the past 20 years. It is available via the Mosaic website and at the upcoming Only the Best per-formances.

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Trey Songz at the FoxR&B singer/songwriter Trey Songz will make his presence known at the Fox Theatre Friday night at 8 p.m. Trey, who just released his latest album, Chapter V, which debuted at number one on the U.S Billboard 200, is wowing crowds with his great sounds and smooth voice on his nation-wide tour. Visit Ticket Master for ticket purchasing and more information.

Comedians from Chelsea Latelyif you’re a fan of The Chelsea Lately Show you will definitely have a chance to be entertained this Friday night. Comedians from the award-winning late-night talk show will be putting on a comedy show at the Royal Oak Music Theater. The list of performers include Brad Wollack, Jen Kirkman and Josh Wolf. Show starts at 8 p.m. For more details and tickets: royaloak-musictheatre.com.

Chamber Soloists of DetroitClassical music has been known to soothe the mind as well as entertain the ear and that is exactly what will be happening at the Detroit Institute of Arts as compositions by Astor Piaz-zola, Rivera Court and George Crumb will be perfumed with the utmost artistry. Visit dia.org for more information.

Superstars of ComedyThe Detroit Opera House will be full of laughter and chuckles as comedians DeRay Davis, Tony Roberts and Aries Spears spark up the stage with witty phrases and gut-busting punch-lines. Show starts at 8 p.m. Ticket prices range from $59-$79 and can be purchased at mo-torpera.org.

Holiday Craft and Vintage MarketThe Loving Touch in Ferndale is having a holiday themed afternoon of “Rock, Paper and Scissors” craft and vintage market. The scene will be filled with holiday cocktails, fun music and a variety of gifts. Festivities run from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

The Snow QueenRunning now through December 9th, this play is just in time for the snowy holiday season. The Snow Queen is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s most famous fairy tale. It follows the daring journey of a young girl turned heroine who rescues a boy from the notori-ous Snow Queen. The venue is Wayne State University’s Bonstelle Theater. Tickets are $12-$15. Visit wsushows.com for more information.

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