Trayvon Martin

In this month's Midday on American Culture, commentator Sheri Parks is joined by Shantrelle Lewis, curator of Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re(de)fined Black Masculinity, an exhibit at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, for a look at hip-hop generation elegance as expression of black masculinity. Replacing sagging jeans and exposed boxers with ascots and three-piece suits, the black dandy is redefining what it means to be black and male.

'Stand Your Ground' laws and self-defense, racial profiling in gated America, and the boy in the hoodie, with our guests: David Gray, associate professor in criminal law and procedure at the University of Maryland School of Law; Nathan Connolly, assistant professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University and Sheri Parks, associate professor in American studies at the University of Maryland and a regular contributor to Midday on American culture.