How ‘Black Boys’ Director Confronted ‘Pervasive’ White Fear, Including Her Own, in Doc About Black Men

“Even I had to look in the mirror and say, like, ‘Am I afraid of Black men?’ And the answer was, honestly, yeah, a little bit,” director Sonia Lowman says

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Sonia Lowman is an activist. She’s also a filmmaker. For her latest film, the most notable characteristic might be that Sonia Lowman is a white woman. After her first film “Teach Us All,” which examined segregation and the racial inequities in America’s education system, Lowman felt compelled to examine how society views Black men, as well as her own blindspots and prejudices.

The result is “Black Boys,” a documentary that premiered on the Peacock on Thursday. The film, as Lowman likes to say, is a love story to young Black men, exploring the body, mind, voice and heart through vulnerable and intergenerational conversations and stories with Black men and women in America.

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