Name: I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America
Start: 2025-09-11T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-11T21:00:00-04:00

Feature Film

I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America

Virtual

Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM CDT

2 hrs

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Hosted by Byron Hurt

Byron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and an adjunct professor at SUNY Old Westbury. Hurt is the former host of the Emmy-nominated series, "REEL WORKS with BYRON HURT.” He also directed the critically acclaimed PBS films, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes; Soul Food Junkies; HAZING; and Lee and Liza’s Family Tree. All four films aired nationally on PBS and can be streamed on PBS.org, the PBS App, Apple TV, and on Prime Video in the PBS Documentaries Channel.

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Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores what it means to be a black man in America. Traveling to more than fifteen cities and towns across the country, Hurt gathers reflections on black masculinity from men and women of a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and a host of leading scholars and cultural critics. What results is an engaging and honest dialogue about race, gender, and identity in America. Features bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick Clarke, Kevin Powell, Andrew Young, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, MC Hammer, Jackson Katz, and many others.

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BLACK MASCULINITY MANHOOD GENDER IDENTITY BLACK MALES SEXISM VIOLENCE AND FEARS EMOTIONS STRENGTH COURAGE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FATHERHOOD IMAGES STEREOTYPES CISGENDER MALES QUEER BLACK MEN

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