Bebe Moore Campbell
National Minority Mental Health Month Celebrations 2024
"Building on Legacy: Empowering Families and the Next Generation of Mental Health Advocates."
Join Us in July to Celebrate Bebe Moore Campbell!
In honor of Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month we are offering culturally inspired conversations about mental health via Zoom on Tuesdays and culminating with an in-person event on July 27, 2024.
"21 Years of Education, Advocacy and Support"
Saturday, July 27th at 11am
Crenshaw United Methodist Church,
3740 Don Felipe Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90008
Registration is closed for this event.
We have reached capacity - No in-person registration.
Her Story
"It’s not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible!"
- Bebe Moore Campbell.
Bebe Moore Campbell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001". 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 NAACP 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. Her essays, articles, and excerpts appear in many anthologies.
Campbell's interest in mental health was the catalyst for her first children's book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry, which was published in September 2003. This book won the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003. 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 City in June 2003. This work revisited the theme of mental illness and the family.
In her early days she graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from the University of Pittsburgh. She was an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
She lived in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, Ellis Gordon Jr. They raised two children, a son, Ellis Gordon III, and a daughter, actress Maia Campbell, from Campbell's previous marriage to Tiko Campbell. Maia Campbell is best known for her role as "Tiffany" on In the House. Bebe Moore Campbell died from brain cancer, aged 56, on November 27, 2006, and was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California. Her favorite quote on being a writer was: "Discipline is the servant of inspiration."
