To provide. To protect. To be independent. Those are some of the core values of manhood identified by participants in a recent study of Black men who were violently injured through gun violence. The study examines how the men's feelings about their own masculinity changed in the wake of serious injury.

Dr. Nazsa Baker is a post-doctoral fellow with the Rutgers University Gun Violence Research Center, and authored that study. Hashim Garrett is a gun violence survivor, who was partially paralyzed after a shooting as a teenager. They both spoke with WNYC Morning Edition host Michael Hill.