Book description
The Black Male Handbook
is a collection of essays for Black males on surviving, living, and
winning. Kevin Powell taps into the social and political climate rising
in the Black community, particularly as it relates to Black males. This
is a must-have book, not only for Black male readers, but the women who
befriend, parent, partner, and love them.
The Black Male Handbook answers a collective hunger for new
direction, fresh solutions to old problems, and a different kind of
conversation -- man-to-man and with Black male voices, all of the
hiphop generation. The book tackles issues related to political,
practical, cultural, and spiritual matters, and ending violence
against women and girls.
The book also features an appendix filled with useful readings,
advice, and resources. The Black Male Handbook is a blueprint
for those aspiring to thrive against the odds in America today.
Kevin Powell is a writer, educator, and political
activist. He is the author of eight books, including the essay
collections Who's Gonna Take The Weight? Manhood, Race, and Power
in America and Someday We'll All Be Free, and the poetry
volume, No Sleep Till Brooklyn. His work has appeared in
numerous publications, including Newsweek, The
Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Ebony, Esquire,
Essence, and Vibe, where he served as a senior writer,
interviewing and profiling, among many others, Colin Powell, and the
late Tupac Shakur. He has been a part of numerous think tanks,
studies, seminars, symposiums created with the purpose of discussing
the challenges Black males face. He is a 2008 Democratic candidate for
the United States Congress in Brooklyn, New York.
