Mindful Messages: "Healing Thoughts for the Hip and Hop Descendants from the Motherland" has a message for everyone. Mindful Messages skillfully scans the social issues confronting the Hip Hop Generation through a spoken word healing conscious and mindfully intervenes with some simple solutions.  The book contains 26 hip hop flavored poems and it includes lots of important health and life skills information that teens need to know. It also discusses the social and cultural impact the HIV/AIDS pandemic is having on the black community.

FACT: There are over 42 million people around the world infected with the HIV/AIDS disease. (29 million are in Africa) In the United States approximately a half a million people have already died and another million are living with HIV/AIDS. In recent years, African Americans have been over 50% of the new reported cases, and the virus is continuing to spread.

The book states, that "HIV/AIDS is more serious than anyone could imagine, because it is also a threat to our adolescent and senior citizen populations.” African American men and women are also at great risk and are now considered to have one of the highest infection rates in the country.

Click here for more HIV/AIDS facts about African Americans.

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Mindful Messages "breaks the silence" and sends an urgent message of "mindful intervention" to all parents and teens advocating abstinence to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. It also thoroughly discusses the use of condoms for those teens who are sexually active. Mindful Messages also offers practical advice on the issues of peer pressure, sexuality and relationships and calls for more health and life skills education for today’s youth.  It also speaks on the consequences of not intervening early.  In addition, the book talks about how alcohol and drugs can greatly contribute to "at risk" behavior and the rise in HIV/AIDS. And it seeks more awareness and compassion particularly for African people and others who are suffering with the disease. The book also talks about the dangers of tattoos and contains written agreements to encourage young people stay abstinent and drug free.

Mindful Messages is an innovative educational and motivational tool designed to empower today’s youth. This book can be purchased separately or as part of the Mindful Messages curriculum for the MMMP Program

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