CommunityBuild Ventures is a solution-focused firm of dreamers, believers, and doers. They believe that education is the first stop in moving towards racial equity. They believe that justice is the natural product of anti-racist leaders and their communities. They believe,...
June is internationally known as LGBTQ+ Pride Month. During this month, LGBTQ+ people celebrate and remember the strong history of queer resistance. Pride Month has taken many forms since its inception. Today, Pride is parades, proms, brunches, marches, or protests....
Each month a member of the CommunityBuild Ventures Cooperatives shares their experience and perspective. Press play and listen as Dr. Chantrise Holliman describes her experience with Brave Space Building. To learn more about Brave Space Building and the CBV Cooperative, visit...
A Moment Years in the Making When I moved into my dorm freshman year, my building sat on the 4th and Bryant Streets corner. I remember my mother taking a picture of the sign. She had a tear in her...
From the Desk of the President and CEO Here’s Why You Can’t Recruit or Retain Black People and What You Can Begin to Do About It “..institutions commonly and unconsciously assume POC [People of Color] who are invited into the...
From the Senior Partner – April 2021 Edition Boy oh boy has April been busy, especially the last half of the month. Back in January, I said that my words for 2021 were strategy and execution. Both of those words...
“..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.”
“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.”
"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."
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