Let Them Cry: Toxic Masculinity & Black Male Vulnerability
I remember my first encounter with toxic masculinity long before I knew what it was, what it meant, or why it was a crippling factor in the Black community. I was roughly eight or nine years old spending a one of those stick to your skin type heat summer afternoons with my cousins in Jersey. Profusely sweating from an aggressive game of ‘keep away’ that was only intended for taunting and…