LUNCH N LEARN SERIES
This virtual workshop in inspired by the alarming continuing surge of black on black violence by African American children/teens in urban cities across the nation and the 2015 New York Times Report 1.5 million Black Men Missing; which through methodology sheds light on two reasons; early/premature deaths and incarceration.
As a third of African American men were/are historically incarcerated in America and with 1 in 4 black men likely to be arrested/jail, this inevitably is a direct correlation to missing black fathers over decades; which has manifested into familial and communal violence thus replicating and continuing the cycle of historical trauma and incarcerated futures.
The New York Times report highlighted the top ten cities with the most missing black men, likewise over the next few months workshops will be given through an anthropological lens of historical/generational incarceration.
The virtual workshop will give recommendations such as: culturally applicable policy and communal-private-public collaborations that create ecosystems of mental/emotional healing and humanization.
References:
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Series; 1985- Jawanza Kunjufu
Black Men, Obsolete, Single and Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition; 1991-Haki R. Madhubuti
Daddy Hunger; (film documentary) 2007- Ray Upchurch
The New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; 2012- Michelle Alexander
Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress; 2012- Becky Pettit
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood; 2017- Tommy Curry
Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage; 2020- Dianne M.
Stewart
Black Boys; (film documentary) 2020- Sonia Lawman and Malcolm Jenkins