Tribute to Brother Bey

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A Community Supports Its Native Son

Friends and supporters braved a windy and rainy Friday evening to join motivational speakers, Willie Jolley and Les Brown, and others as they paid tribute to community activist, friend, health and natural foods ambassador, Brother (Kibwe) Bey, cancer survivor. 

The month of September is Prostate Awareness Month, and in 2003 Brother Bey (affectionately named by the community) summoned 84 men to Howard University Hospital to get tested for prostate cancer.  Of the 84 men who were tested, only Brother Bey was diagnosed with the disease.   Told he would have only two months to live, and given very grim alternative and curative options, Brother Bey decided to go out on his own to treat his malady. 

He credits healthy eating, water (oxygenated), prayer, having a joyful and thankful spirit, along with support from friends and family to his success and survival of the disease. His advice to other men who may be diagnosed:  “Change your attitude to adjust your altitude”, and above all “get away from fear and false education accepted as a reality”. 

 

When others ask why he has gotten the disease, Brother Bey stresses even though he has lived a healthy lifestyle, he "is not exempt from getting sick".

 

Brother Bey prides himself in having a positive outlook and projects this aura to all he meets.  Being a community activist, giving of his time and talents, Brother Bey has made a difference in the lives of many to include Dick Gregory  and Iyanla Vanzant , and countless others in the Washington, D.C. area.  He has been labeled “the natural food specialist” since the 1970s.  Having opened the first natural food restaurant in Baltimore, MD, he has prepared food for Earth Wind and Fire and other celebrities who have visited the area, and was nutritionist for the late civil rights activist, Rosa Parks. 

 

He has several natural food cookbooks in the making, and was recently asked to prepare a meal for CBS' Good Morning America.  

   

We wish Brother Bey all the best on his path to a full recovery!

 

To reach Brother Bey contact him at 202-255-2654, or email him at beybeykids@hotmail.com.  Web Update: www.brotherbey.com

 

 

For info on prostate cancer see: 

Prostate Cancer Survivors

 

 

 

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