DeMarco Taylor, Dean of Students at an all-boy school in a predominantly Black neighborhood, outlines their manhood program. How does it avoid teaching toxic masculinity, and how does it give boys what gang life offers?  

Additional resources:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/conversationballoons/episodes/61--Rites-of-Passage-Into-Manhood--Part-1-e2mia8r

Crossoverprep.org

Crossing Over into Manhood--
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=8fa3744389&attid=0.0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1802051357277744999&th=19022c29698cef67&view=att&disp=inline 
Let's Save our Sons--Conversation Balloons Episode 29-- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cMzsrVq0dZWTW5VrLUCXQ Innovative Schools in a Struggling Neighborhood--Conversation Balloons Episode 52-- https://open.spotify.com/episode/2OWRkTmpeEeIbmPw7lGlc6Niobe Way, "The Crisis of Connection for Adolescent Boys" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ScAvJ0KiyU