How to Raise a Black Boy (2020)

An experimental fairytale dedicated to the modern black boy in which four boys disappear one night as many black boys do and find themselves on a fantastical journey to break the curses of black boyhood As an homage to the great fairy tales of the past How To Raise a Black Boy opens with the cover of a book intricately carved in wood with a boy and a man on either side I home or at least I can imagine it This is the voice of narrator Rayceen Pendarvis of the iconic voguing House of Pendarvis known to many as Mother The narrator is an omniscient presence a fairy godmother who speaks as one of the boys