Lord Simon Woolley is hosting a talk on mental health for black men in Cambridge.
Simon Woolley was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2019 and by December became a life peerThe first male black head of an Oxbridge college says black men are as "fragile as everyone else" and should talk more about mental health.
Lord Simon Woolley, the principal at Homerton College, Cambridge, is due to take part in a sofa chat with an audience on Wednesday evening."The data is truly heart-breaking," he told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. "With men in general there's often a stigma, a stiff upper lip. Being brave and that's doubly so in the black community too."Lord Simon Woolley will be talking about his own mental health in an event to encourage open talks amongst black menLord Woolley, Cambridge sociologist Jason Arday and writer George Mpanga are due to talk about their mental health journeys - as part of Black History Month - at the McCrum Lecture Theatre at Corpus Christi College on Wednesday.
The cross-party peer, who is founding director of campaign group Operation Black Vote, was the third person to be a elected head of an Oxbridge college.Lord Woolley was appointed to lead the government's Race Disparity Unit by Prime Minister Theresa May in 2018 and was knighted in 2019.He added: "It's normally a very private affair with you and your councillor but with me it will be with 150 people and online too.
"When I go into Homerton College I often put on my gown… and say this is my superpower, but in reality, black men in general and black men in positions of power have particular stresses that we often can't talk about.Cambridge Times
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