Dr. Earl Bracy,c "The Making of a Psychologist"

Dr. Earl Bracy -- a Vietnam War era combat medic, practicing clinical psychologist, and author of Too Young to Die: Inner-City Adolescent Homicides and The Making of a Psychologist -- has endured prejudice and discrimination the likes of which many Americans, black and white, will never know.

Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, as a young boy, Dr. Bracy fell prey to the outright bigotry and hatred that was characteristic of the area in the 1950’s and 1960’s – and ultimately overcame it in order to help others rise above similar traumas.

In The Making of a Psychologist addresses these harsh realities:

• While people of color make up about 30% of the U.S. population, they account for over 60% of those imprisoned.
• The war on drugs has been waged primarily in communities of color, where people of color are statistically significantly more likely to receive harsher offenses.
• According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1 in every 3 black men will go to prison at some point in his life.