On the eve of Father’s Day, two events brought Black men together to reflect on experiences of racism, surviving trauma, and speaking to the youth.

At Roxbury Community College on Saturday afternoon, a powerful conversation took place among some of the city’s most dynamic Black men, from business leaders to the wrongly incarcerated, from religious figures to law enforcement officials.

“I won’t say this is an overdue conversation” said William Watkins of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, “because we’ve had these conversations in the barbershops.”

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