Dr. Julia Hare

Dr. Julia Hare

                   DR. JULIA HARE
Dr. Julia Hare is widely regarded as one of the most dynamic motivational
speakers on the nation's podiums today. The Black Think Tank has decided to
turn her loose on the lecture circuit this fall. If you have ever had the
satisfaction of hearing this sista speak, you already know why she is gaining so
much notice and popularity at conference gatherings and campuses across
America and even creating excitement in other lands. The largest black
newspaper in London, The Voice, recently dubbed this genteel woman of class
and charm a “lady Malcolm X” in a feature story of how she is, quote, “setting
the black world on fire” after she electrified the Tavis Smiley “State of the
Black Union Conference” with her breakout blast of velvety tough-talk about
the difference between “black leaders” and “leading blacks.”

YouTube clip picked it up and clocked a million hits from around the world. In
an editorial beside its two-page feature story, The Voice said further that “We
Need Black Leaders Not Leading Blacks,” and “thanks to Internet sites like
YouTube, Dr. Hare’s powerful and at times amusing comments on modern
black life have reached out to people everywhere. In Britain, many ‘in the
know’ are starting to talk about her…Her comments about the differences
between ‘black leaders’ and ‘leading blacks’ absolutely strikes the nail on the
head…The likes of Martin Luther King have been replaced by media
appointed ‘leading blacks’ who have got to their positions of influence by
pretending to the establishment that they have the ear of black people."

Turn on this YouTube Video to Hear
Dr. Julia Hare at the State of the Black Union

Thunder and Lightning, Purple Rain
At press-time Dr. Hare was just back from a rousing keynote the
NAACP's annual Freedom Fund Dinner in Anchorage, Alaska, with
reports coming in that she had rocked the house like no other; "the
lady is off the chain," wrote her host, Andrea Antoine. Past keynoters
included Dick Gregory and Judge Mathis. The sista has never let up
since dazzling the National Leadership Conference of the Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority this year as well as Harvard's National Black Law
Student Leadership Conference. At Delta Sigma Theta's recent
national convention in Florida many awestruck individuals in the
audience told later how, when a hurricane warning was followed by
some serious thunder and lightning, Dr. Hare spoke on as if unwary of
the seemingly supernatural forces dancing dangerously if not defiantly
around her and the podium.

Sass and Class
If you haven’t yet heard this dynamite touch of American African class
and wisdom in person, get ready for a black-eyed Susan with a militant
savoir-faire and a sharp but silky tongue that is stylishly fueled by
knowledge, brilliance and wit, riveted by a rapier-like delivery
reminiscent of Garvey and a touch of the eloquence of King—a woman
for all seasons, who tells it like it is and lays it on the line with a folksy
cornucopia of militancy and class. So, whether you're male or female or
undecided, black, white, or polka dot, ethnocentric, afrocentric,
eurocentric, egocentric, or just eccentric, you will leave her speeches
both pleased and wonderfully pleasured by the charm of a unique voice
that is powered by a pristine singularity of purpose, nothing less than a
vocal black widow spider too far beyond ideology to mind or measure,
reminding you of things you'd sometimes rather not remember but
makes you think as well as laugh; audiences find her unforgettable.

Wit and Wisdom
Dr. Julia Hare has appeared to mesmerize forums from Attorney Alton
Maddox's United African Movement in Brooklyn and Maulana
Karenga's Afrikan Institute in the City of the Angels to the annual
"empowerment" seminars at the Essence Culture Festival in New
Orleans, not to mention Tavis Smiley's San Francisco unveiling of “The
Covenant.” She has captivated Congressional Black Caucus panels
with Cornell West and John Hope Franklin, inspired the Annual Power
Networking Conference of the 19,000-member FraserNet Group, along
with Dick Gregory, Les Brown, Michael Dyson, Na'im Akbar, and the
Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Some of Dr. Julia Hare's other national conference keynoting included
Rust College’s annual National Black Student Leadership Conference,
t, the convention of Blacks in Government (B.I.G.), the Big Eight Black
Student Conference, the Big Ten Black Student Conference, and the
State of Black Students forums currently sweeping the country with
best-selling novelist Omar Tyree, former BET personality Jeff
Johnson, assorted academicians of prominence, and the annual
convention of the 100 Black Men of America, dedicated to "Saving Our
Sons: The Education Crisis among African-American Boys."

Others include the annual Harvard Law School Black Student
Conference, the Distinguished Rockefeller Lecture at the University of
Arkansas at Pine Bluff; and she has been a Distinguished Visiting
Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's W.E.B. DuBois College
House and Stillman College (Alabama), Distinguished Visiting Scholar
at Large for the United Negro College Fund. Shle has been
Commencement Speaker for colleges including Claflin University,
Merritt College, and Langston University's Centennial Graduation as
well as keyoote speaker for the Annual Carter G. Woodson Weekend
at Berea College.

Dr. Hare's 1985 pamphlet, in collaboration with her husband was called
Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood: The Passage, which issued the
call and was the catalyst in 1985 for the rites of passage movement for
American African boys that continues today.

City Magazine has named Dr. Julia Hare one of the Ten Most
Influential African-Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she
has been selected as one of Ebony magazine's one hundred most
influential. Her biographies have been selected by Who's Who of
American Women, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the
World.

Sexual Politics
Aside from her tantalizing new treatise, The Sexual and Political
Anorexia of the Black Woman: the Pain, Guts and Glory of the Black
Woman, Dr. Julia Hare is the author of the highly amusing and
insightful tell-it-like-it-is-ear-popping-brainstorming How to Find and
Keep a BMW (Black Man Working). She has co-authored a number of
books and the Hares are set to release a new book of selected essays
from the popular but now defunct journal, Black Male/Female
Relationships, in 2009. It is tentatively titled "Splendor in the Dust:
The Best of Black Male-Female Relationships."

Dr. Hare is a former ABC and Golden West Broadcasting talk show
host in San Francisco and has appeared as a guest on radio and
television network programs nationally and internationally. Prior to
breaking into broadcasting, Dr. Hare was a prizewinning schoolteacher
in the District of Columbia and also has taught in Chicago and
Maryland, Oklahoma's Langston University, City College of San
Francisco, the University of San Francisco and the D.C. Teachers
College of the University of the District of Columbia. Understandably
she was named one of Ebony's 150 most influential African-Americans
for 2008 (one of the ten selected in the category of "Education").

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BRAND NEW BOOK
SEXUAL AND POLITICAL
ANOREXIA: The Pain Guts and
Glory of the Black Woman
by Julia Hare

PART I   SEXUAL ANOREXIA
Chapter 1
The Pain Guts and Glory of the Black Woman

Chapter 2
The Fight for Love and Glory

Chapter 3
The Politics of Black Skin and Hair
The Scorned Woman
The Status Seeker
The Social Nymph

PART II   POLITICAL ANOREXIA
Chapter 4
Male Carriers of the Virus of the Virus of
Sexual Anorexia
Men Who Play
Men Who Fear Love
Men Who Pimp Their Women
Chapter 5
Why Black Women Find It Hard to Work
with White Women

Chapter 6
Cam Black Women Ever Unite?
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HOW TO FIND AND KEEP A
BMW (Black Man Working)
by Dr. Julia Hare

1. Getting Ready to Kick It
2. The Successful Black Woman
Syndrome
3. Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall
4. Black Women Who Marry
White Men
5. The Brother Who Marries White
Where Have You Gone?
6. The Eurocentric Brother
7. The Afrocentric Brother
8. The Bisexual Brother
9. Married Men
If I Could Snap My Fingers
10.Brothers Who Play
11.Sleep-In Lovers and the Man
Over Your Children
12.The Violent Man
Confessions of an Ex-Wife
Beater
13.The Blue Collar Lover
14.Will He Be a Self Help Soul
Mate Or a Corporate
Climber?
15.Train What You Want
16.The 10 Cardinal No-No's
Calling All Black Men
17.A BMW Has His Say

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RALLY ON BLACK
WALL STREET
Dr. Julia Hare, Live on
"Black Wall Street"
Keynoting 100th Anniversary of the
Historic Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Bombed from the Air in the Tulsa
Riot of 1921

Fire on Mt. Zion
By Edward L. Goodwin II
Co-Publisher,
The Oklahoma Eagle

A capacity audience was in
attendance for the 100th Anniversary
Banquet of Mt. Zion Baptist Church
based on a theme of “We’ve come this
far by faith!!! Hebrews 11:1-6. They
had come to hear the words of one of
their own, Dr. Julia Hare, National
Executive Director of the Black Think
Tank.
Others on the program were Rev.
Maurice Hatton, Master of Ceremony;
Invocation by Dr. Leroy M. Cole, Pastor
with a praise dance performed by a
group entitled Envision. Rochelle
Chambers was soloist for the occasion.
The dinner menu consisted of Cornish
Hens, Wild Rice, Vegetable Medley,
Green Salad, Rolls w/butter, Sweet
Potato Pie/Peach Cobbler, Iced Tea
and Coffee. It was prepared by Ms.
Kitty’s Catering Co.
Dr. Ernest L. Holloway, President
Emeritus, Langston University,
introduced the speaker, Dr. Julia Hare,
followed by a special presentation to
her by Dr. Sharlene Johnson,
Chairperson, Mt. Zion Joint Board. Dr.
Cole, Senior Pastor, Mt. Zion, seated
next to Dr. Hare dismissed the program.
A former Tulsan, and Booker T.
Washington, Class of 1951 grad, Dr.
Hare was named one of the most
influential African Americans in the
nation by Ebony Magazine. She has
participated in forums on major social,
civil, and political issues for the
Congressional Black Caucus annual
Legislative Conference to the National
Conference of 100 Black Men and many
others. She also is a former member of
Mt. Zion Baptist Church (for which she
played the piano and the organ in her
youth) and a member of the Booker T.
Washington High School Hall of Fame.
She is the author of How to Find and
Keep a BMW (Black Man Working); The
Sexual and Political Anorexia of the
Black Woman, and coauthored
numerous books with her husband, Dr.
Nathan Hare.
Dr. Hare was right on time, as she
expressed vividly her feelings about
what should be done in the future at
Mt. Zion, appearing on 1340 Radio A.M.
on the Early Eagle Morning Show prior
to her distinguished engagement.
She expressed her views candidly
about Black Women – Mothers of the
Universe, symbols of stability, family,
community and the nation. As an
example, she said they run the
churches, though she conceded that
they are not allowed to get in the pulpit
and preach.
She countered with statements from
our ancestors and entertainers, the
likes of Lena Horne and Billie Holiday.
She said, they both agreed that black
women have habits.
Lena Horne: black women have a habit
of survival in recessions and
depressions. Billie Holiday put it on our
minds, to always recall that “Mama may
have, Papa may have, but God bless the
child that’s got his own.” Dr. Hare
concluded, “but media exhibits
stereotypes to counter.
Told of being in Anchorage, Alaska,
where one of the apologists for Sarah
Palin asked her, if she really believed a
black woman could be a First Lady?, or
if a black woman could run the White
House. Dr. Hare replied, to the inspired
audience, “if you can run a black
house, you can run a white house. (Met
with thunderous applause).
She then added, “That only a sistah
(black women) can go from the hood
to the corporation and keep it real in
both places.
The dynamic psychologist addressed
the black women as “Combat Divas.”
She countered, “There are a million
black men in jail and prison, more than
anywhere else in the world. She
praised the unincarcerated black men,
who had managed to attend religious
activities without being handcuffed.
Focusing on more stereotypes; E.g.,
Black men as “sex machines.” She
observed that was apparently why
Nobel Prize winningToni Morrison
thought Bill Clinton was the first black
president.
She said they loved to see black
men rapping, dancing and dunking,
but are scared and terrified when they
see motivations, intellect and
perseverance. She encouraged the
black en present to keep on scaring
white folks to death.
Definitely on a roll, Dr. Hare then
proceeded to take timeout to unite the
audience. She ten acknowledged that if
the black community would unite, more
freedom would raise than from a
passage of a thousand civil rights bills.
Picking up on the theme of the church, ”
We’ve come This Far by Faith,” she
warned the audience, if they are to see
the benefit of faith, they must force it
with words and actions. Action includes
reclaiming the children’s minds,
restoring the discipline taken out of
black parents hands, said the coauthor
of the Essence Magazine 2008
bestseller, The Miseducation of the
Black Child, as well as the catalyst for
the recent rites of passage movement
for African-American boys, Bringing the
Black Boy to Manhood, suggested that
we tell white power mongers that if
they don’t tell us how to educate and
discipline our children, we won’t tell
you how to educate and discipline
theirs.
She admonished African-Americans
to stay on top of the runaway white
media, noting their diabolical distortion:
e.g., Amber Alert for missing white
kids. When we also need a Tamika alert
when black girls are missing.
Dr. Hare challenged the audience to
stop being thermometers, which only
measure the temperature of the room,
to be a thermostat, and set the
temperature as Joe Louis and
Muhammad Ali did in the boxing ring.
She encouraged them to always be on
a mission. She emphasized an endless
mission of networking action through
the community and church.
Addressing the Tulsa Riot of 1921, in
which the original Mount Zion Church
was destroyed, she urged the listening
audience to reclaim Black Wall Street,
beginning with the GAP (Greenwood,
Archer and Pine) to put back Black
businesses, pharmacies and other
businesses.
She admonished to take back what’s
left of Black Wall Street – new
ballparks, the white folk’s lofts and all.
She concluded, “we don’t have to ask
permission. They didn’t ask our
permission to destroy Greenwood, so
we don’t have to ask to rebuild it, brick
by brick.
Dr. Hare concluded, “Sorrow looks
back. Worry looks around. Faith looks
up and she emphasized, we must keep
the faith.

KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
28th Annual
Celebration of
the Birth of Dr.
Martin Luther
King, Jr., City of
Las Vegas,
Caesar's Palace,
2010,
To Never Forget

Dr. Julia Hare