COSEBOC’s Blog Posts

This holiday season, we celebrate the progress we’ve made and the incredible community of friends and colleagues like you who make our work possible. Together, we have made meaningful strides toward creating opportunities, breaking barriers, and building brighter futures for boys and young men of color. Thank you for believing…

Langston Hughes poetry speaks to the heart of so many of us, and to this day, his poems continue to nourish and inspire our souls. His words are built into the fabric of the work we do at COSEBOC, and so we honor him at the start of Black History…

As the 2023-24 school year comes to an end, we are sending care, respect and tremendous appreciation to our community of COSEBOC educators. We know that the 2023-24 school year has been a challenging one. In our conversations with the COSEBOC community of educators across the nation, we hear and…

Ayanna Cooper of Language Magazine asks Ron Walker why COSEBOC prioritizes the social–emotional learning of young Black men. There are a number of recent initiatives focused on the health and well-being of students, especially students from racially and linguistically diverse communities. The social–emotional needs of students must be addressed first…