The Big Black Man Project

01/15/2024

“The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be? Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or the extension of justice?”
Martin Luther King Jr.

05/20/2022

Thank you gentlemen for sharing your perspective. Special Thanks to Erik Muten and Robert H. Thompson for making this happen. Enjoy your Class of 1972 Reunion at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Founded in 1781 by John and Elizabeth Phillips, Phillips Exeter Academy has long been on the list of elite, private boarding schools in America. Notable graduates include, Nobel Prize winners, presidents, accomplished authors, senators, and a long list of the children of wealthy and powerful people....

05/19/2022

Coming tomorrow, Friday the 20th of May.

As part of the Phillips Exeter Academy Class of 72 Reunion, we asked Black members of the class to describe their relationship with America. The five-minute preview video launches tomorrow, with the longer videos will be released in late June.

Their brief answers are both beautiful and haunting. We can't wait to share it with you.

Special thanks to Erik Muten and Rev. Robert H. Thompson, members of the class.

04/05/2021

Hoping to interview sometime soon.

https://www.houstonpress.com/music/dende-releases-short-film-in-case-you-forgot-im-black-11545971?fbclid=IwAR2250nb3AjFd37iZ2RArTMQChox2UhkLQ61WO0625n_7NVBJnMKpPMlaEU

With jury selection in the trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd in the news, it can almost feel unreal that it hasn’t even been a year since Floyd died. With all that has happened since that tragic day in May of 2020...

04/05/2021

Our second post of the week. Please enjoy our conversation with Marvin Pettus.

https://www.bigblackmanproject.com/post/post-10-wait-your-turn-my-conversation-with-marvin-pettus

04/05/2021

This week we will be sharing two posts to the Big Black Man Project. Please enjoy our conversation with Michael Boulware Moore.

https://www.bigblackmanproject.com/post/post-9-the-strongest-of-the-strong-my-conversation-with-michael-boulware-moore

03/02/2021

March is Women's History Month. What better way to acknowledge this than sharing the story of the woman who replaced Hank Aaron.

Toni Stone couldn't play in an all-white women's league, so she decided to play with men.

03/01/2021

A reminder that The Big Black Man Project will be participating in The University of Akron Rethkinking Race: Black, White and Beyond, tomorrow, March 2nd from 3:30 - 5:00.

To register for the free event follow this link.

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01/30/2021

The founders of the Project discuss their relationship to America.

In this latest installment to the Big Black Man Project, the 3 Black founders answer the question, "What is your relationship to America?" We thought it was important to share our own answers to this particular question as it is one we have committed to asking each of our Big Black Man Project inter...

01/09/2021

The events of the past week make this post seem even more appropriate. The Big Black Man Project Interviews Dr. Cleavon Gilman.

I first heard of Dr. Cleavon Gilman less than a month ago. I was reading through what at the time seemed to be an implausible news story. A doctor was being told not to return to work for daring to speak publicly about the stress that COVID placed on his state’s hospital system. Amid a pandemic, w...

12/13/2020

The Big Black Man Project interviews Jammil Telfort.

I have to admit that this has been the most challenging interview I have had to edit so far. The subject, Jammil Telfort, is my former advisee from St. Mark’s School, in Southborough Massachusetts. Even though it has been years since I played any official role in his life, I still feel the familia...