Crowning Too Early

Crowning Too Early (2017) is a narrative commentary on the erasure of Black childhood. For the young adults that were not afforded the opportunity to be children; for the princes and princesses that were crowned too early. Navigating difficulties with institutional racism, addiction, inadequacy, and mental health, Malachi takes us on the tragic yet filling journey of the bright-eyed Brown boy becoming the man of the house. A step evolved from the juxtaposition of poverty and privilege in Wh...