The cops drive by
The cops drive by to do some more good deeds A young black male spits a sunflower seed in the air. Dred Scott
Black Males
Being a black filmmaker,
Being a black filmmaker, one of the things I wanted to do with the movie is make sure I told it from a different perspective. I wanted to take myself out of it as a black male. I wanted to look at this movie through the eyes of Tully, to understand what he was thinking, … Read more
There is a class
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors. Debra Wilson
The street is as
The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples’ mind it gets appropriated as a black man who’s tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn’t do justice to my … Read more
For me her image,
For me her image, the triptych, became a study of the weight the black male figure carries, given the fact that they are targeted by the police, and are constantly in danger of being misread in public spaces. Claudia Rankine
The Bureau of Justice
The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison – that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us. Bryan Stevenson
If Black women stand
If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I’m supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms. Bell Hooks
Black males who refuse
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males … Read more
What had begun as
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. Bell Hooks
I always tell my
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. Bell Hooks