Black Boys Don't Cry pt 1

This film was created by Frank Lopez, an alumni member of the Lyrical Circle of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, a nationally renowned youth organization based in Harlem, NY. Frank, a sophmore at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University created this 17 minute documentary: Black Boys Dont Cry: Manhood in Urban America. Frank interviewed several members, both alumni and active of different Brotherhood chapters and the result is this extraordinary insight into the results of our founding rites-of-passage program The Brotherhood. This is a focus on our work with males; through the eyes of one of those males who has stated that his life was fundamentally changed by our program.«

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Black
• Boys
• Don't
• Cry
• brotherhood
• sistersol
• sol
• Harlem
• NYC
• NY
• New
• York

[Qwinkly3]

"A Man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a little child."

[Qwinkly3]

Started at 8:18, I like how he says that men need to learn gentleness also, so they can be gentle with their children, and with their mates. I'm not saying things are the same for white young men, situations are different in general. But I'd like to point out that white teens need to learn this, too. There are far too many white males who also think real men don't cry, have only one emotion (anger/power). And I hate that phrase, "get in touch w your feminine side". Yeah, that'll be popular.

[winchesterboyz89]

There should be more schools like this, as well as programs like this in high school's across the U.S. Young male African American as well as Hispanic teens and pre-teens should learn that the thug life isn't the only life that they should 'have to live.' They should be told, "You, are important as a person too. Just because you're black or hispanic, and you live in the projects or where ever; you don't have to become another number. You can be something, you can become something greater!"

[MzIsis08]

Powerful thats what this is.

Powerful

[marcdaddy33]

Good stuff. Keep on doing your work with young black boys.