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PSIrenity Feature • Phi Psi Lambda Leadership Society, Inc. • Nov 4, 2025
Violence · Education · The Vanishing Pipeline
The pipeline they refused to let vanish. A cross-generational reckoning on what is being done to — and for — Black men, boys, and the futures they carry.
OPENING SCENE
It began as a reckoning.
On November 4, 2025, PSIrenity — the national mental health and wellness initiative of Phi Psi Lambda Leadership Society, Inc. — gathered a cross-generational audience for a conversation that refused to turn away from one of the most painful questions facing Black families, campuses, neighborhoods, and institutions.
THE QUESTION ON THE TABLE
Not a panel that flinched. Not a webinar that softened the truth for comfort. A room that chose to sit inside the hard thing and stay there — long enough to understand it, long enough to fight for what comes next.
WHY THIS ROOM. WHY NOW.
More likely to face the harshest end of violence, discipline, and the systems built around them.
Conversation Black families keep having — in whispers — about safety, school, and survival.
The number of futures we refuse to let vanish from the pipeline.
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THE THREE FRONTS
The conversation refused to treat these as separate problems. Violence, education, and the vanishing pipeline are the same story — told in three chapters.
The threat that shapes a boy before he ever gets to be a man — and the trauma that follows the survivors. Naming it is the first act of protection.
Classrooms that discipline before they develop. The early exits, the labels, the genius that gets pushed out of the room instead of poured into.
From the cradle to the campus to the career — the path that keeps narrowing. PSIrenity gathered to widen it back open, and keep it open.
VOICES FROM THE PANEL
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“One of the epitomes of masculinity is what your mind can do and how resilient your mind can be.”
Dr. Lloyd M. TalleyAssistant Professor of Psychology, Hampton University
“the only acceptable sort of emotion to emote is anger or suppression”
Dr. Victor N. UkwuFamily Medicine Physician · Founder, Maven Community Health
“not only an educational space but a healing space”
Alfred Lewis Jr.Int’l VP, Media Relations & External Affairs
HOSTED BY
International Vice President of Media Relations & External Affairs
National Vice President of Community & Public Relations
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Family Medicine Physician · Founder, Maven Community Health, Inc.
Connect on LinkedInTHE PIPELINE THEY REFUSED TO LET VANISH
It starts before a word is spoken — in the assumptions made about a Black boy before he can defend himself.
Where potential is either developed or disciplined out of existence. Where the pipeline first narrows.
Violence, surveillance, and the trauma carried in silence — and the brotherhood that refuses to let men carry it alone.
Mentorship, mental health, and the proof that thriving is possible — culturally grounded and collectively built.
Men of purpose. Minds that heal. Legacies that lead. The pipeline restored — and held open for the next.
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