Blackness

Self-Definition & Identity in America

Painting — Romare Bearden “After Church” — 1941 (Public Domain)

“…once we got here, we were robbed of our names, our language. We lost our culture, our God…” (Public Enemy)

The sports commentator Doug Gottlieb once told the late Kobe Bryant that the only way you are black is if you are from “the hood.”