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To be a black m…
To be a black male in America is to be in constant danger of having your life taken and your death garrisoned by fears garnered from ignorance. The jury that acquitted Trayvon’s murderer could not...
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But some are gi…
But some are given more days than others, and I think of dying at 17, in my loudness, in my vanity, which is to say in my human youth, and I tremble. I was barely anything. I understood barely...
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The association…
The association of black males with criminality is as old as the country itself. Despite the crime statistics showing that whites are more likely to be victimized by other whites, the oft-repeated...
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And the preside…
And the president of the United States is not just an enactor of policy for today, he is the titular representative of his country’s heritage and legacy…The bearer of this unfortunate heritage feebly...
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One thing I am …
One thing I am sure of this: Every man who comes to feminism for answers is a man who can redefine his manhood. This endeavor can be liberating and transformative. It can also call to question personal...
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…the Black male…
…the Black male consciousness must be raised to the realization that sexism and woman-hating are critically dysfunctional to his liberation as a Black man because they arise out of the same...
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At the heart of…
At the heart of our generation’s ambivalence about the f-word [feminism] is black women’s historic tendency to blindly defend any black man who seems to be under attack from white folks (men, women,...
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I would hope th…
I would hope that the sum total of the liberation struggles I have attempted to sketch, and briefly criticize, would mean this: That I will be free to be who I am, Black and female, without fear,...
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Harmony Holiday, on the relationship between black men and women and our fathers
I want to talk about the relationship between black men and women and our fathers, as I understand it. This means I want to discuss growing up black/brown/yellow/gold-in American and not knowing your...
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