Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men : Affirmations, Meditations, Readings, and StrategiesFrom the author of the best-selling Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition, Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Redemption, and Heartlove: Wedding and Love Poems, comes this profound series of letters, notes, and written conversations to young boys and men. In this moving text, Haki R. Madhubuti, poet, publisher, editor, educator, and institution builder, hopes to guide young men in search of direction to make good choices and wise, informed decisions on the road to a healthy life. Madhubuti writes as a caring father and resourceful teacher, with the insight of one who has benefited from his elders. |
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A Call to Men | 12 |
Lest We Forget | 26 |
FINDING THE EXCEPTIONAL | 49 |
Copyright | |
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