GOOD HEALTH:
MIND, BODY, & SOUL
A gathering at the intersection of health,
Hip Hop, and generational wellness
It’s a Wrap!
What a day. The inaugural Good Health Summit brought together culture, community, and credible insight in a powerful gathering at Morehouse College, where honest conversations about Mind, Body, and Soul turned into real momentum around prevention, mental health, legacy, and action.
We’re deeply grateful to our attendees and panelists for showing up with openness and intention, to Morehouse and Dr. David Wall Rice for hosting us at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center and King Chapel, and to Mayor Andre Dickens for welcoming us to Atlanta with purpose and pride. The energy in the room made one thing clear: this was just the first chapter. Stay tuned: the next Good Health Summit is already in motion.
Watch (and re-watch) Good Health Videos
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We often talk about sleep as if it lives in isolation; something we either get or don’t. But sleep doesn’t start when your head hits the pillow; it starts with how you prepare your day, your body, and your mind. This panel is about the connection between sleep, routine, and readiness—how structure reduces stress, how preparation protects performance, and why the most sustainable form of success is built on habits that support recovery, not just hustle and grind
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Addiction is often talked about in extremes, ether as a personal failure or as something so broken it can’t be fixed. Today’s conversation lives in the space between those ideas. We’re bringing together neuroscience and cultural history to talk honestly about how addiction takes hold, why some communities are hit harder than others, and what’s actually changing in treatment right now. This is not about blame or fear—it’s about understanding the brain, the systems around it, and the real opportunities we now have to break cycles that once felt inevitable.
IN PERSON EXCLUSIVE
The Crown Forum conversation is about legacy. Not as something frozen in the past, but as something living, breathing, and evolving. De La Soul has always shown us that creativity is a form of care, that joy can be intellectual, and that community is an active practice. In the wake of losing David Jolicoeur, this moment invites us not into mourning alone, but into reflection, responsibility, and renewal. Atlanta is a city that knows rebirth, and today we’ll explore how culture carries grief, transforms it, and turns it into something sustaining for the soul.
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Today’s conversation is about something deceptively simple: sitting down and breaking bread. In many Black families, meals and music have always been more than nourishment. They’re how stories are passed down, how stress gets named without being over-explained, and how community repairs itself in real time. This lunch and listening experience invites us to look at food not just as fuel, but as memory, care, and infrastructure. We’re here to talk honestly about how intentional meals, who cooks them, who serves them, and who gathers around them, an be one of the most accessible health interventions we already own.
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For generations, chronic illness has shown up in Black communities so consistently that many of us have been taught, directly or indirectly, to accept it as normal. High blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, chronic pain—these conditions aren’t just medical issues, they’re cultural realities shaped by access, stress, food systems, and trust. This conversation isn’t about blame or fear. It’s about understanding what’s really driving these outcomes, what prevention actually looks like in real life, and how science, culture, and lived experience can work together to make being healthy more attainable. Not just for individuals, but for our entire community.
For many Black men, mental health isn’t something we learned—it’s something we inherited. We absorbed how emotions were handled, avoided, or silenced long before we had language for them. This conversation isn’t about blame or pathology. It’s about awareness. Today we’re talking about emotional inheritance: what we carry from our families and culture, how it shapes our relationships and parenting, and why knowing ourselves deeply is essential before deciding what we want for our children. This is about legacy. Not just what we leave materially, but what we pass on emotionally.
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Technology and innovation already shape how we move, think, and connect, but when it comes to health, too many tools are built without the people most affected in mind. Today’s conversation is about flipping that script. We’re exploring how innovation, when grounded in culture, science, and lived experience, can help overcome long-standing biases in healthcare, improve prevention, and put better information and power directly into people’s hands. Let’s talk about building systems that actually work for real lives.
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Since its discovery, cancer has been spoken about like an ending: something whispered, feared, or avoided until it’s unavoidable. But that framing no longer reflects where the science, the treatments, or the lived experience truly are. Today’s conversation is about what’s changing: how prevention, earlier intervention, and new therapeutic platforms are extending lives and improving quality of life. We’ll hear from leaders working at the edge of innovation and from lived experience, to talk plainly about what people should know now. Our goal is to empower folks to act sooner and smarter
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When most people talk health, they focus on what we eat, how we move, or whether we see a doctor. But today we’re talking about something just as powerful, and often overlooked: the people we’re connected to. This conversation is about friendships, family, love, and community as real health infrastructure. From barbershops and gyms to churches and group chats, we’re exploring how connection can be protective, how isolation can be dangerous, and what it looks like to intentionally stay plugged in (to each other) at every stage of life.
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To most of us, health is something personal. We encourage our loved ones to eat better, sleep more, stress less. But today’s conversation is about the systems that make those choices possible or impossible. We’re exploring how financial wellness, entrepreneurship, and emotional stability shape health across generations. The focus isn’t always about getting rich. We also need to focus on building lives with enough margin, financially and emotionally, to be present, consistent, and healthy for the people who depend on us.
Mind
Our Mind sessions focus on mental health as a foundation for living well—addressing stress, grief, anxiety, trauma, and the unseen pressures carried by Black men and families. Through honest conversation and practical insight, these sessions challenge stigma, replace silence with understanding, and equip participants with tools to support emotional resilience, clarity, and long-term wellbeing.
Body
Our sessions on Body confront the physical health challenges that disproportionately affect Black communities, including heart disease, diabetes, cancer, addiction, and sleep-related disorders. Sessions translate clinical knowledge into real-world understanding, connecting prevention, treatment, and lifestyle choices to everyday life. This track emphasizes access, accountability, and action—empowering participants to take control of their health before concern becomes crisis.
Soul
The Soul sessions explore the human connections that shape health—friendships, family bonds, love, grief, purpose, and community. It examines how relationships, culture, music, and meaning influence how we care for ourselves and one another. Rooted in legacy and collective strength, this track reminds us that good health is sustained not only by medicine, but also by belonging, communication, and shared responsibility.
Who took the Stage?
DE LA SOUL
CHAKA ZULU
COREY SMYTH
DAVID BANNER
DR. DAVID WALL RICE
DR. DERRICK BROOOMS
DONOVAN X. RAMSEY
DR. FARZANA BHARMAL
GEORDAN PURSGLOVE
GUY PRIMUS
H. EDWARD YOUNG
HEATHER PRIMUS
DR. JAVIER CÁRDENAS
JEROME HILL
DR. JOI ALEXANDER
KENNY BURNS
KILLER MIKE
DR. LANCE SHIPMAN YOUNG
DR. MARLON C. WILLIAMS
DR. NICOLE PEOPLES
QUEST GREEN
ROBBI STIELL
STYLES P
SYLVIA WILLIAMS
TAKEO SPIKES
Why this Summit? Any Why Now?
Health gaps are widening.
Trust is eroding.
Culture still moves people.
The Good Health Summit creates space for honest dialogue,
shared rituals, and actionable insight—
led by voices you already believe in, at a place that develops greatness.
Run of Show
INTRO
Welcome
Breakadawn | The Science of Sleep, Circadian Rhythms & Restorative Routines
I Am, I Be | The Mental Health of Black Men and its Generational Impact
Crown Forum | De La Soul
Nourishment for the Soul | Lunch, Listen and Learn
It Ain’t All Good | Addressing Chronic Illness Through Access & Prevention
Say No Go | Breaking the Cycle of Addiction
Plugged In | Wellness Through Friendships, Family Bonds & Romantic Relationships
(Not) The End | Exploring Cancer Prevention, Breakthrough Treatment & Survivorship
Sponsored by Lixte Biotechnology
Art Official Intelligence | Technology & Innovation in Healthcare
The Bizness | Building Intergenerational Wellness (Physical, Emotional, and Financial)
OUTRO
Good Health by De La Soul
When David “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur passed, De La Soul didn’t write an elegy. Instead, they wrote a reminder.
“Good Health,” a song written and recorded after his death, is not a mourning song but a meditation on endurance: a message that true wealth comes from wellness, and that love of the game means learning to stay in it.
Trugoy’s passing hit home in the Black community because it reinforced a truth that has echoed across generations of Hip Hop: too many of our icons—Phife Dawg, Heavy D, Guru, DMX, Shock G, Biz Markie, Kangol Kid, and more—were lost to the same illnesses that affect millions of Black men and families every day. Heart Disease. Diabetes. Cancer. Depression. Addiction.
For decades, the culture celebrated grind and survival, but rarely rest and recovery. Now, as Hip Hop enters its golden years, the conversation must turn too. The Good Health: Mind, Body & Soul Summit embodies the spirit of De La Soul’s song, transforming it into action—a day where the rhythms and legacy of Hip Hop intersect with the science of wellness
The Good Health Summit is a call to re-invest in ourselves, to treat health like capital, and to pass down habits that build generational wealth of a different kind.
Because, as the song goes:
True Wealth comes from Good Health and wise words;
De La Soul, “Good Health“
You gotta take better care of yourself!
from the album Cabin in the Sky
Get Geared Up
And Now, a Word From Our Sponsor
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