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University of Pittsburgh.
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Bebe Campbell
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Her essays, articles, and excerpts appear in many anthologies. The book tells the story of how a little girl copes with being reared by her mentally ill mother. Her book 72 Hour Hold also deals with mental illness.
Her first play, Even with the Madness, debuted in New York in June 2003.
This work revisited the theme of mental illness and the family. As a journalist, Campbell wrote articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, as well as other publications.
She was a regular commentator for Morning Edition a program on National Public Radio.
Achievements
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Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain"t Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Award for Literature. Her memoir, Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad. And her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage. This book won the National Alliance on Mental Illness (National Alliance On Mental Illness) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003.
Membership
Mississippi Campbell was a member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Illinois and a founding member of National Alliance On Mental Illness-Inglewood.
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National Alliance