CommunityBuild Ventures and BMEsTalk are excited about a new collaboration that was recently formed between CBV and Georgia State University’s CREATE Teacher Residency program. This partnership was created with the intent to design and facilitate the CREATE Black Men in...
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...
CommunityBuild Ventures reimagines a world in which everyone has equal opportunity to be themselves and flourish regardless of their race and background. But in the systems of racism and inequity that have continued to exist across many generations in the...
As a consulting firm that is driven to help organizations learn about and prioritize racial equity and healing, the team at CommunityBuild Ventures is excited to announce our new education partnership with KDSL Global. Together, CBV and KDSL Global are...
Welcome to CommunityBuild Ventures, a consulting firm invested in helping leaders confront inequity head-on to transform their community members’ lives for the better. With an innate passion for dismantling racist structures and building thriving spaces for personal and community growth,...
As I contemplated a theme for this month’s blog, I thought of all the topics I could discuss to inspire and motivate you. I wanted to be profound and inspirational. I thought of themes like: Revisit your goals and Finish...
“..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.”
"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."
“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.”
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