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Podcast: Black History Year
Episode: The (De)Construction of Black Masculine Identity with Marlon Ross
Description: Today's History Story: Black Men Aren't Allowed to Have Emotions, Right?Gender has shaped and continues to shape much of our lives. It tells boys to wear blue and girls to wear pink, dictates what careers are “appropriate” as adults, and even has a say in how we’re expected to express our feelings.Quiet as it's kept, a big reason gender norms exist is to maintain white supremacist notions of what it means to be a man. But in the tradition of Black resistance, our people have pushed back against these arbitr...