Ayodele Harrison, Senior Partner of Education and Director of BMEsTalk for CommunityBuild Ventures, penned an article. According to the Changing the Odds report released in 2019 by The Annie E Casey Foundation, African Americans and whites together represent nearly 90 percent of the...
Ayodele Harrison, Senior Partner of Education and Director of BMEsTalk for CommunityBuild Ventures, penned an article. “I’m spying.” Two words typed in the chat box of a Black male educator virtual affinity space. Why would a Black male educator tell...
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...
Day 3: What I Am Learning from COVID-19 by Natasha Harrison Join Natasha Harrison, President & CEO of CommunityBuild Ventures, every day at 8am LIVE! Today, she has a special guest. Tune in and meet Ayodele Harrison, Senior Partner of...
“..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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