The Laurence Fishburne produced and Laura Checkoway directed documentary, Cave of Adullam is a love letter to masculine vulnerability.
Cave leader Jason Wilson uses a quote from Frederick Douglas for reference, “It’s easier to raise boys than repair broken men.” Through martial arts, meditation, discipline and emotional expression, he’s helping the young men of Detroit carve create a new way of living beyond the temptations of crime and gang culture.
His teachings encourage young men to cry, to be upset, to be okay with expressing their feelings, which forgoes the idea that Black men must bottle up their feelings because it’s not what men do.
The film follows four young men (some of whom grew up with months in single parent situations), as Wilson reprograms their understanding of masculinity, and gives them problem solving tools to overcome to break the generational trauma of manhood.
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