Damon Young Is Getting Blacker by the Minute

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WNYC News | Apr 3, 2019

In a new collection of essays, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker, Pittsburgh-based writer and co-founder of VerySmartBrothas.com, Damon Young, gets very personal and very black. Here he talks with WNYC’s cultural critic Rebecca Carroll about black masculinity, parenting a black girl in an all-pervasive white supremacist country, and being labeled gay as a young high school teacher.  

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