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First Person
Boundless Black Masculinity
Season 2
Episode 1
In the season 2 premiere of PBS Digital Studios’ First Person, host Tonilyn Sideco talks with playwright Donja Love about his experience of surviving depression and suicide ideation, expanding notions of Black masculinity, and what he refers to as the radical power of “softness.”
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