Fred A. Bonner IIOpinionWe Are Not Like ThemLamar’s performance took me back, and at the same time it propelled me forward.April 9, 2025Opinion#BlackCitesMatter: Foregrounding a Citational Justice MovementCiting Black authors is a small but critical praxis toward changing ideals surrounding knowledge creation and rigorous scholarship.September 21, 2022OpinionCode-Switching to Code Stitching: Theorizing an Alternative FrameworkThe term code-switching has become a part of our sociocultural lexicon, especially among Black and Bi-Racial Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) communities. The definition of code-switching is two-fold.September 8, 2021OpinionHow and Where We Exit: Seven Propositions on Black Positionalities in the Pandemics EraThe world has tried to recalibrate after the seismic shift that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacted on key aspects of everyday life, as we once knew it. For certain populations, this shift has been coupled with a cataclysmic jolt. For Black people globally, and specifically for African-Americans in the United States, the battle has been at best—formidable. While the Black gaze focused on the destruction and devastation that COVID-19 was exacting, it was the concomitant spread of a second pandemic, racism, which proved to be just as, if not even more virulent for the Black community.June 30, 2020African-AmericanTw(y)ce-Exceptional: Gifted Black Males in P-12 EducationThe call from my college classmate was all too familiar—it started with “he’s super smart, but he struggles in some areas.” As a researcher and scholar who writes about the experiences of academically gifted Black males across the P-20 educational continuum, I welcomed this inquiry from my college classmate.October 18, 2019African-AmericanBlackness in the Academy: Who Owns the Truth?Blackness, who owns it? Perhaps a better question to ponder is, can Blackness be owned? As I reflect on this complex question, I am very aware that my positionality as a Black male is always going to be an intersecting identity vector that I will never be able to erase.August 30, 2019African-American‘Mascu’sectionality: Theorizing an Alternative Framework for Black MalesThe theorizing and theoretical frameworks speaking to the male experience, particularly the Black male experience has tended to emanate from a place of deficit thinking and pathology. Hence, for Black males and those who study this population, engaging in critical discourse about their epistemological and ontological being is at best lopsided.January 15, 2019African-AmericanHe Said, He Said: Black Male Cross-Generational Conversations on Black Masculinity, Resources, Family Influence and Career and Future SuccessThis blog (Part 2), is the second installment of the He Said, He Said discussion that we initiated a few months ago. In Part 1 we talked about why the dialogue about the experiences of Black males across the generational divide was important. We covered the first three of what we identified as seven critical themes. The objective was to offer our perspectives on these themes and to unpack how they shaped the contours of our lived experiences, as well as the experiences of other Black males in P-20 education settings. Hence, this blog explores the remaining four themes: Black Masculinity; Resources; Family Influence and Support; and Career and Future Success.November 6, 2018HBCUsHe Said, He Said: Black Male Cross-Generational Conversations on Perspective, Place and PositionalityWhat began as an informal chat between college faculty member and undergraduate student morphed into a complex and multi-layered exploration of topics that challenged us both to think deeply about issues ranging from diversity, equity, identity, masculinity, positionality and social justice to Trump and Wakanda.June 30, 2018StudentsWhy Betsy DeVos Will Never be the HBCUs’ ‘Boo’What the Betsy DeVos debacle at Bethune-Cookman University provides is an opportunity for critical reflection and a “teachable moment.”May 22, 2017Page 1 of 1
