Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril Cover:Paperback and the power and resilience

and the power and resilience of young people in the face of ongoing racial hatred and violence

Includes the story of how the tales came to be called Anansi tales

But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing

These true stories from history are accompanied by rare photographs so young readers can meet these incredible individuals face-to-face

Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril Cover:Paperback and the power and resilienceOver the last 100 years, perhaps no segment of the American population has been more analyzed than black males. The subject of myriad studies and dozens of government boards and commissions, black men have been variously depicted as the progenitors of pop culture and the menaces of society, their individuality often obscured by the narrow images that linger in the public mind. Ten years after the Million Man March, the largest gathering of black men