The Emotional Lives of Black Men Podcast

Glamarys Acevedo is a Black Latinx of Puerto Rican & Haitian descent. She was born & raised in North Carolina but now resides in Oakland. She’s spends her professional time focusing on racial justice, health, & black liberation.

Cover art by Jo Ko. Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.

Marlon Miller, a seeker of truths, a world traveler, deeply immersed in holistic practices. We talk about the practice of yoga, meditation, and others ways of establishing a stronger connection of the mind, body, and spirit.

Cover art by Jo Ko. Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.

Danny Ray is about community, has experienced the dreaded quarter-life crisis, and can’t seem to relax. Owner of DapprDan’s BarberLoft in downtown Oakland.

Cover art by Jo Ko. Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.

Nadir Nelson, a Philadelphia Area native, spent some time with me to talk about self-identify in relation to personal drive, fatherhood, meaning, and mental health. We both look back at the messages we received from our fathers and the environments we grew up in and how we interpret them as adult males.

Cover art by Jo Ko. Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.

In this episode, we talk about mental health and Black males from the perspective for an educator. Topics we discuss range from getting more Black males in higher education as students as well as instructors to the mental health benefits of pursuing education.

For this episode, we sat down with Solomon Hughes. Solomon serves as the Associate Director of the EDGE Doctoral Fellowship Program at Stanford University. He works on the development and leadership of programs created to empower students as they navigate the graduate school experience. He has served as a Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education, and teaches courses that explore the intersection of race and college athletics. He holds a PhD in higher education from the University of Georgia. His BA and MA are from the University of California at Berkeley.

Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.

Jewel Love is an Oakland-based clinician and the founder of Black Executive Men. He shares his process towards self-discovery, elements of psychotherapy, and surviving and thriving in corporate America as a Black man.

Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.

A general pediatrician at LifeLong Medical Care, Dr. Niyi Omotoso stopped by to talk about mental health, perceptions of being a Black male in America and the disconnect between African immigrants and African-Americans.

Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.

Sanford Jenkins Jr, an artist, writer and filmmaker, and an introspective storyteller. We talk about how mental health influences creativity, how the Black man’s narrative is created, and characterizations of Black males in media and other creative spaces. 

Cover art by Jo Ko. Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.

Brandy is a cisgender adoptive parent, an avid Salsa dancer, an insatiable traveler, and a professional napper. She’s also a licensed clinical social worker and therapist. We talk about the stigmatization around mental health, misconceptions about therapy and Black males.

Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.

I sat down with fellow Haitian-American, Marc Guirand, to discuss mental health and Black males in regards to personal and career development. We touch on misguided stereotypes, cultural influences, inner work, family, community and the workplace.

Cover art by Jo Ko. Intro and outro voiced by Nadir Nelson. Music by Yondo Music.