Dr. Joy DeGruy - Author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Special Guest Host, John Howie. Blackonomics BH Kickoff! Featured on PBS,NPR, Essence.com, Essence, CNN, The New York Times, ABC, & The Tavis Smiley Show. As a result of twelve years of quantitative and qualitative research Dr. DeGruy has developed her theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, and published her findings in the book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing". P.T.S.S. is a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American communities throughout the United States and the Diaspora. Presentations of programs in the community by The Frator Heru Institute, N'Cobra - National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, The Philadelphia NAACP Branch, ACT-SO & a host of other special Guests!