This is a special episode of Teach the Babies.
On October 16, 2025, we celebrated 30 years since the Million Man March. To honor that anniversary, I sat down with three brothers for a conversation about what the March got right, what it got wrong, and what repair requires of us now.
You're about to hear Rev. Mark Thompson (who emceed the original 1995 March), Pastor Jamal Bryant (who's leading one of the nation's largest Black churches), and Sean Ebony Coleman (who's keeping Black trans youth alive in the Bronx) get honest about:
- Where we were in 1995 and why some of us were told we couldn't belong
- How sexuality has been weaponized to divide Black men
- What happens when a megachurch pastor admits he was doing "domestic terrorism" from the pulpit
- Why the Black church owes the LGBTQ+ community an apology
- What it costs when we police masculinity instead of expanding brotherhood
- How we turn churches into sanctuaries and teach the babies that vulnerability is strength
This conversation is brothers talking WITH each other—not at each other. It's repair in real time. It's reckoning and regeneration.
And it's what teaching the babies actually requires.
For full video and additional resources, visit
NBJC.org and
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