I was very excited when I learned earlier this year that Justice While Black was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. We didn't ultimately win, losing out to my good friend Hilary Beard's excellent and important book, Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and In Life, which she wrote with Joe Brewster [...]
More than two years ago, I began talking with Atlanta attorney Robbin Shipp about how we might create in book form some kind of guide to help Black males deal with all-too-frequent harrowing encounters with law enforcement and provide them ways to avoid being devoured by the voracious prison industrial complex. After the heartbreak of [...]
When the Hechinger Report asked me to go to Mississippi to start chronicling the educational and societal woes of Black boys in the state, I jumped at the chance.
