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...
CommunityBuild Ventures is proclaiming December as the Month of Gratitude! Our practice of Brave Space Building uses gratitude as an important building block to help participants be their most authentic selves. It invites hopefulness and opens the door to infinite...
Ayodele Harrison, Senior Partner of Education and Director of BMEsTalk for CommunityBuild Ventures, penned an article. In a recent article posted by the Associated Press (AP), twenty-three (23) Univ of Clemson football players have tested positive for coronavirus since returning to campus in...
On March 16th, I flew home from DC. The weekend proceeding this flight was filled with uncertainty. I was forced to pack up my entire life at Howard, say goodbye to my friends and girlfriend, and leave the city without...
“What’s happening is black folks are getting infected more because they are exposed more, and once infected they’re dying more because they have their bodies — our bodies — have born the burden of chronic disinvestment (and) active neglect of...
Day 4: What I Am Learning from COVID-19 by Natasha Harrison Join Natasha Harrison, President & CEO of CommunityBuild Ventures, every day at 8am LIVE! No need to register. Did you hop on to Facebook and join? If not, catch...
"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."
“..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.”
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