“What I’m trying to do is create a way of presenting information to men in a conversational rather than confrontational way,’’ Ellis says. He has asked for $80,000 to fund his project over two years.
“We’re not crazy; there’s nothing wrong with us,’’ says Ellis, an African-American whose grandfather was a slave. It’s that, he says, black men have lived through historic trauma, including slavery as well as generational trauma.
“These things are embedded in us in ways we don’t even recognize,’’ Ellis says.
He plans to use academic research from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study ...."
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