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October 29, 2021October 29, 2021Ayodele Harrison
racial equity Partners group

Let Me Finish

I am a big fan of the I Am Athlete podcast. It is hosted by 4 retired NFL football players Brandon Marshall, Chad Johnson, Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder. Each week, the fellas get together to discuss topics in sports,...

April 14, 2021September 10, 2021Ayodele Harrison
race equality equity

From Our Senior Partner

As I write, I’m excited. I’m feeling humbled and exhilarated about BMEsTalk. The impact of our work since launching in 2017, leaves me speechless. My vision was a digital space to uplift the perspectives of Black Male Educators on Twitter. ...

April 9, 2021September 10, 2021Ayodele Harrison
society for history and racial equity

You Ain’t Recruiting Black Teachers With That Ad!

Ok, I am just getting ready to wind down at the end of a long day. I have my bowl ice cream (small one that is, because I’m watching my calories), I got my pillows set up just right, and...

April 7, 2021September 10, 2021Ayodele Harrison
examples of racial justice

Reasonable Expectations in the Workplace: What You Need & What You Deserve

It’s a known fact that the average person spends ⅓ of their lives in the workplace. Still, that statement doesn’t account for commute time, mandatory overtime, later hours at the office, or the never-ending phone calls or emails that many...

April 7, 2021February 21, 2022Ayodele Harrison
racial equity in elementary schools

Centering Racial Equity Requires “Brave Space Building”

What is a “Brave Space”?  At CommunityBuild Ventures, we define it as a structured space to allow participants to be their most authentic selves and lean in more deeply in conversations centered on racial equity.  Why do we offer Brave...

March 29, 2021September 10, 2021Ayodele Harrison
advancing racial equity in public libraries

Staggering Numbers of Black Educators are Leaving the Profession

According to the US Department of Education, 50% of students receiving public education are nonwhite[1]. Studies show that Black students with same-race teachers are 13% more likely to graduate from high school and 19% more likely to go to college[2],...

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"Education can’t save us, we have to save education - To love all children, we must struggle to create schools we are taught to believe are impossible: Schools built on justice, love, and anti-racisim."

~ Dr. Bettina Love

“..institutions commonly and unconsciously assume POC [People of Color] who are invited into the institution should not only be grateful but should also want to be like the white people who invited them.”

- Ruth King

"There is a common misconception that equity and equality mean the same thing — and that they can be used interchangeably, especially when talking about education. But the truth is they do not — and cannot."

- Blair Mann

“Change culture and you change lives. You can also change the course of history...When strategy competes with culture, culture wins every time. This is one of the reasons why the most brilliant anti-white supremacy strategies in the world have failed to dislodge white-body supremacy from our culture...But we can never belong to a strategy. We can never belong to a movement, either, though we can be part of it. We can only belong to a culture.”

- Resmaa Menakem

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