Redefining Black Masculinity in "Thug"
by Tislarm Fitzgerald Bouie It was Spring of 2015, the weekend of Freddie Gray's murder, and I was arrested for walking through a park past dark that was less than a 30-second walk from my house. I spent a night in jail among twenty other Black and Latinx men, amid the system I knew was at play my entire life. In a matter of minutes, all of the hard work I've done to defeat all odds was reduced to nothing. I create…