Why Young Black Males Aren’t Reading (Children’s Literacy)

Why aren’t our young black males reading? Young African American males are struggling with many different issues as they grow toward adulthood. Black males are facing stereotype and poverty. Many A…

@qateesha a powerful post on masculinity, black men, and literacy.

As a culture we let literacy get defined as a weakness. That was wrong

That is why I love assigning  @alfredtatum’s work. We need to reestablish that literacy is the heart of all power, especially for the black male.

@davidekirkland does wonderful work to show black men are very literate, but not in ways that we recognize in our schools. Very similar to piece we read by Miasha Winn, on Africa Diaspora Literacy Communities

Also checkout #HipHopEd on Twitter

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