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He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1952.
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Alvin Francis Poussaint
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Poussaint is a Haitian-American, born to Haitian immigrants in New York City"s East Harlem neighborhood. As a youth, he took ill with rheumatic fever, which left him unable to engage in the physical activities of his peers. He graduated from Columbia University in 1956 and earned an Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University in 1960.
Poussaint completed postgraduate training at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied psychopharmacology and served as chief resident in psychiatry.
Later in life, Poussaint served as a consultant for The Cosby Show and currently combines an advocacy for responsible media programming with his academic work. Along with Bill Cosby he co-authored the 2007 book Come On, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors.
