Watch our President, Natasha A. Harrison, as she discusses the racial equity key skills. In this vlog, you will learn about the following four racial equity key skills: Noticing: feeling when something doesn’t feel right or aligned with being racial...
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...
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...
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...
Investing in a “Feeling Recognition” Practice for Embodied Liberation Our feelings are ripe with information about what we want, need or are challenged by. In this video, I discuss the ways in which a regular practice of recognizing and working...
“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.”
"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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