Why Marvyn Harrison Refuses to Be the Black Messiah And Why That's the Most Radical Thing He Could Say

About this episode

Marvyn Harrison discusses his journey and the complexities of Black leadership without the messianic role.

Show details: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDayAfterTNB You probably know Marvyn Harrison from Dope Black Dads. Or from Jeremy Vine. Or from Good Morning Britain. But do you know where he started? In this episode, Marvyn takes the room on the full journey — from g:hop, the lifestyle movement that tried to do for grime what hip hop did for itself, to Sunday Show where Ed Sheeran performed most of his early Black community shows, to building Dope Black Dads out of a moment of personal crisis in fatherhood, to developing BELOVD as a human strategy organisation, to Men's Circle, the free space for men he considers his most important work right now. Then the conversation goes somewhere else entirely. What does it mean to be a Black leader without becoming a Black Messiah? Why does Marvyn refuse that role, and why does he think most leaders who accept it get destroyed? What happened when he burned out for three years and stopped feeling safe in football media spaces? What does forgiving an absent father actually look like — and why does it have nothing to do with the father? And what happens when someone in the room defends hitting their children, and Marvyn pushes back — live, on…

People in this episode

Host: Marvyn Harrison

Topics covered

• Black leadership
• community
• fatherhood
• identity
• mental health
• personal crisis

Keywords

• Black Messiah
• leadership
• fatherhood
• community
• identity
• mental health
• burnout

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dope Black Dads, BELOVD, g:hop, Sunday Show, Men's Circle

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