Best Man 2020

Instead of holding each other accountable, Black men rushed to support celebrities who displayed the worst of us — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. Hip-hop’s brooding edgelord antagonism toward Black women didn’t appear out of nowhere — blame Western patriarchy for that — but it’s thrived because of power-hungry Black men. …

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. I’ve been thinking a lot about joy lately. Maybe it’s the Thanksgiving trip I recently canceled. Maybe it’s the constant despair we’ve experienced throughout 2020 — the feeling that we’ve spent…

Queens rapper turned community watchman Anthony Herron Jr. epitomized the phrase ‘Protect Black women’ — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. Jennifer McLeggan felt she was all out of options. The 39-year-old single mother and registered nurse had been racially harassed by her neighbor for the three years since she first moved…

Remembering Chadwick Boseman, Kobe Bryant, and John Lewis — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. Every year, we reacquaint ourselves with grief. Yet in 2020, grief became the backdrop to everything. If it wasn’t a pandemic disproportionately affecting Black and Brown communities, it was unchecked police…

Black health care workers watch the pandemic continue to take a disproportionate toll on people who look just like them — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. In March, when Dr. Kameno Bell saw a patient come out of an ambulance and into his emergency room, he did a double take because the man looked so much like…

Growth can’t happen without loving yourself, so let’s celebrate us — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. To say 2020 has been a tough year is an understatement, and that’s even more pronounced for Black men. Between external pressures like systemic racism and a global pandemic, the internal…

From neighbors to fathers to first responders, anyone can be the best of us — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. Last December, LEVEL was born. All around us, magazines and websites were doing their year-end thing, and not just their year-end thing — their decade-end thing. Here we were, coming into…