User:Nharewp/The Black Think Tank

The Black Think Tank was co-founded by Nathan and Julia Hare in 1979 to promote a movement addressing the new black male/female rift, which had been signaled by a popular "Speaking Out" editorial, "For a Better Black Family," in the February 1976 issue of Ebony magazine. From 1979 to 1982, the Black Think Tank disseminated a now defunct periodical, Black Male/Female Relationships, which was featured in the August 27, 1979 issue of Newsweek ("A New Black Struggle"). The Black Think Tank quickly took on other matters: the miseducation of the black child, spearheading a rites of passage movement for black boys, overhauling the public schools, and "educating every black man, woman and child." In 1985 the Black Think Tank produced and disseminated a booklet widely regarded as the catalyst for the contemporary rites of passage movement for African-American boys, Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood: The Passage.