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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blackmen, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Shreveport hosts inaugural Black Men’s Mental Health Forum | Community

    SHREVEPORT, La. – Community leaders, mental health professionals and concerned citizens gathered Thursday night for the inaugural Black…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #Blackmen #conversation #derrickhenderson #forum #Health #jamesstewart #Louisiana #mentalhealthservices #MentalHealth #rolandmartin #shreveport #Stigma
    newsbeep.com/us/616579/

  2. @cebstill shared the text and video below.

    I honestly don’t know which makes me laugh the hardest. The fact of what the lyrics actually are or the hysterical laughter of one of the men discussing this. This is my favorite video of the year so far.🩡🦁🦁🦁🩡

    #thelionking #blackmen #funnyvideos #blackmusic #blackcomedy #blackmastodon

  3. Alwin Lopez Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer.

    #blackmen #blackhistory #blackmastodon

  4. Lovely Peeps, the newspaper link no longer works (which is a shame because it was a great article) but I still love the idea, so am moving over my original post without it - & now there is a website! 😊

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    πŸš¨β€‹ Love this! πŸ˜ƒβ€‹

    #BlackMenFlowerProject, a nonprofit centering the health & well-being of #BlackMen since 2021, is asking #Black men to nominate others they know for flower delivery as a way to show appreciation & build community.

    Already in a few cities, #florists in more are enquiring about joining, and there may soon be a nationwide network of Black men connecting with each other through nature. πŸ’ͺ​

    blackmenflowerproject.org/

    #NonToxicMasculinity #Florespondence #Albuquerque #Chicago #Columbus #SantaFe #NYC #NewYorkCity #Florist #Flowers #Barbershop #Community

  5. @jay.dubu, Black Royalty, wrote:

    Hopefully, as a [non Black person, they're] not just typing that on an app; that [they're] actually voicing that same thing, out loud, at the people who need to hear it.

    [I often provoke racists on a street level. mastodon.social/@audubonballro

    So perhaps they can do the same.]

    #blackmen #whitemen #asian #blackmastodon

  6. @thispastorslife, a white pastor wrote the below. I mentioned that they are white bc over 75% white people are racist - source below; so it's worth pointing out when a white person is cool.

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    #blackmen #blackamerican #blackpower #blackconsciousness #whitewomen #police #blackmastodon

  7. The Bluff released in 2026 made in Australia which might explain why it's racist.

    includes an asian woman unconvincingly acting as a Caribbean woman most brutally attacked by Black Men reinforcing negative stereotypes so I rated it 1

    #movie #asian #blackmen #blackmastodon

  8. SG shared text and image below.

    Deon Cole at NAACP Awards: β€œIf there are any white men in the room with Tourette's, I advise you to tell them to read the room, lord. It might not go the way they thinketh."

    #blackmen #blackamerican #blackmastodon

  9. @josh_e_smalls, Black Royalty, wrote:

    When I got stabbed I didn't call the cops or go to hospital.

    When those bihhhh ahhh niiiuhhhs ran in my house with guns I didn't call the

    (1/7)

    #blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #blackmastodon

  10. @mayorsoj, a Black King, wrote:

    As a Black [Man], I’m not asking you to admire my strength. I’m asking you to recognize my humanity because too often, my resilience has been used to mask my personhood.

    #blackmen #blackmastodon

  11. Thelonious Monk died 44 years ago today.

    Jim Brown would have been 90 today.

    Geronimo died today in 1909.

    #blackmen #blackamerican #indigenous #blackmastodon

  12. Mahershala Ali is 52 today.

    James Ingram would have been 74 today.

    Ice-T is 68 today.

    Levar Burton is 69 today.

    The Weeknd is 36 today.

    #blackmen #blackamerican #blackcanadian #blackmastodon

  13. @brownnsugar_belleza, Black Royalty, wrote:

    Bertie Lindsey, a white woman, was murdered in her home on August 30, 1919. Nearby lived Maurice Mays, a Black [Man] in Knoxville who openly dated white women. And in 1919, that was all it took for white

    (1/8)

    #blackmen #whitewomen #blackmastodon

  14. @flowspalace, Black Royalty, wrote:

    Being homeless in my car, bathing in public restrooms, sleeping on the streets, eating at shelters, and sleeping in a shelter with bedbugs are some of the many initiations

    (1/4)

    #blackmen #unhoused #blackunhoused #homeless #blackhomeless #blackmastodon

  15. Arsenio Hall is 70 today.

    Ed Lover is 63 today.

    Al Jarreau died eight years ago today.

    Abraham Lincoln was born today in 1809.

    #blackmen #blackamerican #blackmusic #yomtvraps #presidents #blackmastodon

  16. @9.galactic, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below

    white woman asks Malcolm X (played by Denzel Washington in 1992) what can a good white person do to help the Black cause.

    A lot of yall need to see this clip again (or for the first time)

    #blackmen #blackmuslims #blackamerican #whitepeople #blackpeople #movie #blackmovie #greatmovie #blackmastodon

  17. Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiri_Ba

    #blackwriters #blackpoets #blackmen #blackamerican #blackpeople #blacktivists

  18. constructed a type of crude but working and properly tuned harpsichord out of junk in his back yard, since his family lacked the money to buy or rent a piano. On this contraption young Tony was able to reproduce hymns he heard in church;

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    #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackmastodon #blackpianists #blacksingers #blackcomposers

  19. @nvo987 shared the text below

    🎭 Harlem Stage Takes Its Show on the Road for the First Time
    β€œFreedom Riders,” a performance featuring monologues about police violence against Black people, played in cities throughout the South before returning to New York.

    harlemstage.org/stories/freedo

    #blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackcreatives #blackhistory #blackmusic #blackmastodon

  20. George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (11 Oct 1778 – 29 Feb 1860) was a British musician, of African descent. He was a virtuoso violinist who lived in [england] for much of his life. His playing impressed Beethoven, who made Bridgetower the original dedicatee of his Kreutzer Sonata.

    #blackmen #blackpeople #blackbritish #blackmusicians

  21. Edward Leroy Loper Sr. (April 7, 1916 – October 11, 2011) was an African American artist and teacher. He taught painting for almost 70 years.

    Artist beginnings
    In 1936, during the Great Depression, Loper started working in Delaware for the Works Progress Administration (WPA),

    (1/5)

    #blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackcreatives #blackhistory #blackartists #blackteachers #blackmastodon