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Comedian Bill Cosby joined hundreds of Harvard Medical School (HMS) alums Saturday to honor famed civil rights activist and Professor of Psychiatry Alvin F. Poussaint, in an extensive all-day tribute...
...Poussaint, who serves as Associate Dean for Student Affairs at HMS, has been on the cutting edge of the mental health field since the 1960s. A pioneer in the civil rights movement, Poussaint is best known for linking issues of racial inequality with the practice of psychiatry and served as a field medic at two of Martin Luther King Jr.’s demonstration marches through Mississippi...
...Poussaint served as a consultant to the Cosby Show’s writing team during the sitcom’s entire eight-year run, and has remained a close personal friend of Cosby since the show’s premiere...
...Poussaint says in no ways was Cliff Huxtable modelled after himself. He says the show tried to write him in to a story, but he declined...
Like many psychiatrists who study the impact of the media on child development, Poussaint is worried by the daily influx of racial stereotypes, sex and violence children see each day on television...