YOUNG BLACK MALES: PUSHED OUT AND PUSHED AWAY
Damien Durr is a brilliant young man who grew up in Ohio in a family of teachers where education was always stressed. No one—including Damien—ever [...]
Read MoreTHE POWER OF “PROPHETIC” GRIEF
“Prophetic grief is more than crying and sighing and weeping and mourning . . . Prophetic grief is planting gardens of healing in the midst [...]
Read MoreBISHOP TUTU’S DREAM
“O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Why [...]
Read MoreWISE LESSONS IN SERVANT-LEADERSHIP FROM HOWARD UNIVERSITY’S PRESIDENT
When I was growing up my parents constantly tried to be and to expose us to good role models. Daddy would pile us children into [...]
Read MoreIT’S HARD TO BE WHAT YOU CAN’T SEE
“When we think about what it is to be ‘connected,’ we think about memory. We think about history. We think about storytelling. All of these [...]
Read More“THE UNTHINKABLE LIVES OF SO MANY BLACK BOYS: WHERE ARE THE CARING ADULTS?!”
What’s on the minds of many high school students these days—the start of a new school year, getting a driver’s license, worrying whether they’ll make [...]
Read More“HELPING BLACK BOYS SURVIVE: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A SMILE MAKES”
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass “If I tell you a smile could save a life, would you [...]
Read More“HANGING ON TO HOPE TO KEEP BLACK MEN AND BOYS ALIVE”
Our history is for decades we humiliated people of color. For decades we excluded people of color. For decades we shamed and burdened and beat [...]
Read More“TEN RULES TO HELP BLACK BOYS SURVIVE”
Democracy cannot breathe, and will die, if those enjoined to protect and uphold the law snuff it out unjustly and without consequence. Justice cannot breathe [...]
Read MoreHOW TO KEEP OUR BLACK BOYS ALIVE: CHANNELING THE RAGE
The recent spotlight on systematic racial profiling and police brutality against Black boys and men has exposed a painful truth long known in the Black [...]
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