by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Journeys from Black Youth to Black Manhood-Part 1 last week I shared the academically accepted view that childhood, youth, adulthood, manhood is socially constructed and changes in time and context. As individuals we play a role in that construction and maintenance...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
The experience of childhood and youth is framed by the perceptions of what childhood and youth should be, as defined by the culture, wider society, in which the child/youth is located. This means that what childhood/ youth is, varies from culture to culture, wider...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the past four weeks, we have taken a momentary glimpse at the historical Black presence and the reactions to it, in Canada, the United States of America and the United Kingdom (www.daviddivine.co, blogs 7th April, Rise to the Challenge; 23rd March, ‘We are not what...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the past four weeks we have travelled along a road pitted with Black male suffering and of those who loved them. We have glimpsed at the histories of Black presence in Canada (14th March 2018) and the United States of America (24th March 2018) and we end our four...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
‘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...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
