Everett Jenkins Birthday Blog

  This email serves as a reminder that Hiding in Plain Sight airs tonight.  This film is a personal one for Ken Burns.  As he mentioned in tonight's PBS Newshour, he experienced his own mental illness issues during his youth in association with the long term illness and subsequent death of his mother.  For the edification of all, it would be beneficial to watch "Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness". Peace,  Everett Jenkins Class of 1975 June 27, 2022 -----Original Message----- From: skipjen2865@aol.com To:  Sent: Tue, Jun 7, 2022 5:23 am Subject: NAMI Convention 2022 and June 2022 Must See TV: PBS; Hiding in Plain Sight; Youth Mental Illness In connection with the ongoing gun violence epidemic that has beset the land, some have wanted to link the gun violence epidemic to the mental illness epidemic that also plagues the land.  Sadly, those who are experts regarding mental illness are skeptical of this connection    https://www.health....

  June has been a month of some remarkable acts aimed at a form of reconciliation.  Two of the more acts occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the Belgian monarch visited the country and returned some Congolese art https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/09/belgium-king-philippe-democratic-republic-congo-colonialism/ along with the return of the tooth of Patrice Lumumba -- the only part of his body that remains from his brutal murder https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tooth-patrice-lumumba-congo-independence-returned-familly-belgium-rcna33270 I suspect that we are entering a period when many European nations will have a "reckoning" over the atrocities committed during their colonial periods.  However, we in the United States still have reckonings of our own to endure On a personal note, it appears that progress has been made on the return of Bruce's Beach to some of my distant cousins.   https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-06-23/...

The NAMI Conference began on Tuesday.  I am not able to attend but I am able to peruse the schedule https://events.nami.org/namicon2022/schedule and I am able to ascertain the prominence of the advent of 988 -- the new national mental health hotline number -- is having on the discussion at the conference. https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/988 Here, in California, the advent of 988 holds a great deal of promise ... provided that it can procure sufficient resources.  It is my sincere hope and prayer that it succeeds in doing so. Peace, Everett "Skip" Jenkins Class of 1975 California Prepares to Launch a Mental Health Hotline Going live nationwide on July 16, the hotline is intended to be like 911 but for psychiatric instead of medical emergencies. By  Soumya Karlamangla June 13, 2022 It’s Monday. California is preparing to launch a new mental health hotline. Plus, gas prices are higher than ever. Image A sign on the Golden Gate Bridge with information about crisis counseling...

                                                                                To God  Be the Glory Today, Sunday, November 28, 2021, is my birthday.  I am 68 years old today. However, I believe that this day is actually the day I will remember for being the first day of my new life. For those who have ventured on to this site, I invite you to come along on my journey.  It should be an interesting ride. Peace, Everett "Skip" Jenkins Fairfield, California November 28, 2021

Over the past 68 years, I have achieved some notable accomplishments.  Below are the links to some of the biographical listings that set forth those accomplishments: https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/490677/marquis-whos-who-honors-everett-w-jenkins-jr-with-inclusion-in-whos-who-in-the-world https://prabook.com/web/everett.jenkins/1666664 https://marquistoplawyers.com/2018/05/25/everett-jenkins-jr/ https://wwlifetimeachievement.com/2018/01/23/everett-jenkins/ https://www.amherst.edu/alumni/connect/networks/black_alumni/black-alumni-week-2021/speaker-biographies https://www.amherst.edu/alumni/connect/networks/black_alumni/archive/BAW_2019/speaker-biographies/node/738351 I feel very blessed to have been able to do as much as I have, but I feel that I have been "called" to do even more.  The creation of this blog is my response to that "calling".  I look forward to seeing what your response to that "calling" will be. Peace, Everett "Skip...

The main notoriety I have achieved in this life is based upon my writing.  I have written six books ( Pan-African Chronology  [three volumes],  The Muslim Diaspora  [two volumes], and  The Creation  [one volume]) which achieved some notoriety and I have begun two blogs  Who's Who in Islam  and  The Muslim Compendium  which have garnered additional notoriety.  However, whatever notoriety I have achieved for my writing has always seemed a bit undeserved.  Truth be told, I write not for notoriety, but for God.  In the coming days, I hope to be able to elaborate on why I do this.  However, suffice it to say that every book I write and every blog I begin, begins with a tribute to God.  I can only pray that God will continue to find what I write to be an expression of God's will. Peace, Everett "Skip" Jenkins Fairfield, California November 28, 2021 

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