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My Brothers Keeper

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You Bet Not Come Home Without a Pack of Cigarettes: On Black Girls, Reciprocity, Nicki Minaj, MBK and #BlackLivesMatter (Track 2)

April 22, 2015

Rewind “You bet not come home without a pack of cigarettes.” I was about 14 when my aunt uttered those words as I left the family compound on the Southside of Chicago. Admittedly, I didn’t give much thought to what she said at that moment. It later dawned on me that she was essentially saying, “If you’re leaving this house to spend time with a man (boy), then you better not come home empty handed.” Wait, what? I know she didn’t mean that I should ask a guy to do something for me[...]

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Because All the Women Are Not White and All the Blacks Are Not Men: MBK, Intersectionality, and 1000+ Of Us Who Are Brave

June 19, 2014

Last month, over 200 Black men penned an open letter to President Barack Obama to express their concerns on the exclusion of Black girls and women from the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative (MBK). In solidarity, 200+ Black Men, including Rev. James M. Lawson, Danny Glover and Charles Mills, concluded with the following: As Black men we believe that if the nation chooses to “save” only Black males from a house on fire, we will have walked away from a set of problems that we will be compelled[...]

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