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...
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...
The creative marketing and design services industry is so white because it chooses to be and this lack of diversity is causing tone-deaf content that is costing brands their reputation and ultimately hurting their bottom line. In April 2017, Shea...
"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."
“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.”
“..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.”
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