Building A Pro-Black World

When Blackness Is Centered, Everybody Wins: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Dax‐Devlon Ross

In this conversation about defining pro‐Blackness, Cyndi Suarez, Nonprofit Quarterly's president and editor in chief, talks with Dax‐Devlon Ross, author, educator, and equity consultant, whose latest book, Letters to My White Male Friends.¹ is garnering well‐deserved attention.

The conversations that ensued can be found in full in Spring 2022 of NPQ.

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Cyndi Suarez:

It's always great talking to you, Dax, because I love the work and analysis you're doing out there in the field on race and power, racial justice, DEI, and whatever else people are calling the work as it evolves. The recent articles that you've done with NPQ—A Letter to My White Male Friends of a Certain Age (which became a book that came out last year) and Generational Differences in Racial Equity Work—have really resonated with our readers as well.² So, when we landed on the topic of building pro‐Black organizations for this issue of the magazine, I knew we had to include you in the mix. You were one of the first to start naming the generational differences. We both know that the field has been doing this work on race and power, in different iterations, for the last 30 years at least, right? And we're only now starting to have this conversation at this level in the sector. We're hosting this conversation for the whole year at NPQ, and we're already getting a lot of response. I wanted to bring you in to talk a little ...