Blog & Updates

‘The beauty in black existence is as real as the brutality, and the beauty prevents the brutality from having the final word. Black suffering needs radical and creative voices, prophetic advocates who can tell brutal and beautiful stories of how oppressed black people...

In my blog of March 7th, 2018 titled ‘‘Protecting our Children and Grandchildren: ‘Hope in Black Possibility’’, I outlined some of the thinking by identified leaders in the field, of the status of Black men in society and how this position of Black men was...

Before we as Black adult men can even begin to explore how to protect our youth, we need to ask the question how do we see ourselves and protect ourselves first? How can we credibly put ourselves in the vanguard of defence of others if we already feel defeated and are...

I was gently and willingly reunited with moments of time past that have periodically surfaced over the years since. The trigger for this re-emergence of impacts from my lived experience was an invitation received to meet up with some of my former high school year...

In an interview by Oprah Winfrey of Nelson Mandela, the then President of South Africa, released on A Plus video, 18th July 2017, Nelson outlines some elemental truths. He talks about the people he has been in the company of, ‘some of them more qualified, more...

In last week’s blog I outlined an initiative in Fort Wayne, Indiana, designed to reach out to youth in an attempt to curb violence and death amongst young people. Homicide is the leading cause of death amongst Black males between the ages of 10 and 24, in the...