Foreign Language
August 9, 2023
(A part II to Immigrant Words) I do feel more comfortable describing my father as firstly an immigrant and then a Jamaican and then a Black
Category: Black Men
Immigrant Words
August 1, 2023
What does it mean to be a Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother raised on Indigenous land? I’ve asked myself
Living Up To A Stereotype
December 13, 2021
In 1995 rapper Skee-Lo came out with a track titled, “I wish”. On it he waxed about his hopes to be a little bit taller
The Lox Dipset Verzuz, Brotherhood & Black Men’s Mental Health
August 23, 2021
I almost forgot it was the night that The Lox would be facing Dispet until one of my boys texted, “y’all got your baggy white
No Title
June 5, 2020
I’m tired. And it’s not because I’ve almost entirely lost interest in continuing on with the flawed form of teaching we call remote learning or
3 Things You Need To Know About Teaching Black Boys
October 2, 2019
I’m neither an expert on the subject of teaching black boys nor am I a child psychologist that specializes in the mindset of the adolescent
My Typa Nigga
February 17, 2019
Between the ages of twelve to nineteen I idolized the same people you did. I looked up to people that were, subconsciously I guess, specific
Does Black History Month still hold meaning in 2019
February 17, 2019
I know. The title seems ignorant and at the least, redundant. I know, on the surface, it seems asinine to question the importance of Black
Speaking on and about black male students
January 9, 2019
Speaking on and about black male students continues to be a fundamental concern of mine. That is because even words like concern carry connotations that
Fabrics, Clothes and the Cloth of Society
November 6, 2018
Have you every wondered why sagging pants is demonstrative of “negative values” but holey, plastic Croc sandals are not? If you’re like me, you’ve thought
Matthew R. Morris
Educator, Speaker, Writer
Matthew R. Morris is a writer, speaker, and elementary educator in Toronto. He has an M.A. in Social Justice Education from OISE at the University of Toronto and is the author of the forthcoming book, Black Boys Like Me.
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