Category: Manhood
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Blade is Still #BlackBoyJoy
Blade: Unforgivable Blackness With black television’s resurgence, shows like Black-ish, Atlanta, Insecure, Empire, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder have been blasting through the airwaves and our downloads. The next leap in black film and television naturally is the red-hot superhero genre. 2016 has given us Luke Cage (#coffee) and the promise of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump’s Alpha Male Fantasy “One of the reasons why Trump leads in the polls among men is that there is still an admiration for alpha males in this culture. As I’ve written before, it is this patriarchal notion of dominance that undergirds not only sexism, but racism and most of the other “isms” that continue to…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Bryan A. Stevenson
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week, we honor Harvard lawyer, human rights activist, professor, author, and…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Hakeem Oluseyi
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week, we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week, we honor physicist, veteran, professor, inventor, star of the Science Channel’s…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Pakistani boy gang-raped in Greek migrant camp: police ATHENS: Four Pakistani minors have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old boy in a Greek migrant camp, police said Wednesday. #Pakistan #Greece #International #ChildAbuse Biocentrism Says Time and Death Are Illusions You’ve Invented Okay, I admit it. They had me at “You won’t actually die.” I…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Everette Taylor
Welcome to the second edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week, we honor marketing guru, entrepreneur, and…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
12 police officers injured during North Carolina protests “Protests erupted overnight Tuesday into Wednesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a police officer shot and killed an African-American man while looking for another person who had an outstanding warrant.” #NorthCarolina#BlackLivesMatter#KeithLamontScott 375 Top Scientists Warn Us Not To Vote For Trump Hundreds of the world’s leading scientists,…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Colin Kaepernick
Welcome to the first edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the former San…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Donald Glover on Why ‘Atlanta’ Has an All-Black Writing Staff “As Glover told writer Rembert Browne for Vulture (the story also appears in New York Magazine’s new print issue), FX initially suggested that a drug dealer character live in “traplike” apartment. “We were like, ‘No, he’s a drug dealer, he makes enough money to live in a regular apartment,’”…
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The Week In Stories Around The Globe
THE LEGACY OF LYNCHING, ON DEATH ROW “In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an organization that became the Equal Justice Initiative. It guarantees legal representation to every inmate on the state’s death row.” #DeathRow#NewJimCrow#Injustice#Race Scientists have a scary theory about why human vision evolved to…
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