Matthew R. Morris grew up in Scarborough both a good student and an athletic talent, yet at school it was always the latter achievement that his teachers encouraged.
“Very early, I was pushed into athletics simply because I won a race at recess or something like that,” recalled the educator and author of the new bestselling memoir Black Boys Like Me.
“It always seemed like I was pushed into these tropes of what Blackness is supposed to be.”
After becoming a teacher himself, however, he’s made it a point to challenge stereotypes of Black male identity and, by bringing his whole self to the classroom,
