The Brothers' Network Documentary

Produced, directed and edited this film by Anthony Fleet.

November 2020 Featured Artist

Akeem Smith, Visual Artist and Stylist

Akeem Smith is a visual artist and stylist who currently has his first major solo exhibition “No Gyal Can Test” at Red Bull Arts in New York City. “This large-scale debut traverses the slippages between memory, the archive, and history, excavating the personal photographs and videos entrusted to the artist over the past decade by various family members, friends, and pivotal figures of Kingston’s dancehall community.”

The exhibition has been favorably reviewed in Vogue, Frieze, and W Magazine, among others “No Gyal Can Test” will be on view until November 15, 2020 See More.

November 2020 Featured Literature

Another Country, The Man-Not, The Ballad of Black Tom

Another Country was James Baldwin’s third novel, written in 1962. The New York Times wrote that it was "a sad story, brilliantly and fiercely told" and perhaps most notably, fellow writer Langston Hughes said of the novel “The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought.”

Brother’s Network Board Member and American Book Award winner, Tommy J. Curry wrote his provocative book The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood as justification for Black Male Studies. “He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not, therefore,is a corrective of sorts, offering a concept of Black males that could challenge the existing accounts of Black men and boys desiring the power of white men who oppress them that has been proliferated throughout academic research across disciplines.” Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies. Hear him talk about his book in depth here.

The Ballad of Black Tom is a speculative fiction novella written by Victor Lavalle that follows a black man named Tommy in 1924 Harlem. The story is based off of H.P Lovecraft’s The Horror at Red Hook. Work has won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella, and was a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novella, among others.