An Important Report on Black Education in the Wake of COVID-19

An Important Report on Black Education in the Wake of COVID-19

An Important Report for Your Information Unlike any other time in recent history, the opportunity now exists to educate all students in ways that increase and enhance their personal self-knowledge, their history, their requisite skills, and the knowledge and understanding essential for academic and life success. These imperatives are especially…
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A Conspiracy of Care: A Call to Healing

A Conspiracy of Care: A Call to Healing

Throughout our 15-year history, COSEBOC has embraced the belief that affirmative social, emotional, cultural, and academic development and wellness is essential to the success of boys and young men of color. We wrap this mission in a concept that we call the Conspiracy of Care. The Conspiracy of Care is…
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Trauma Can Endure! What Must We Do to Heal?

Trauma Can Endure! What Must We Do to Heal?

I can still remember in vivid detail the terror I felt when I saw a picture of the grotesque face of Emmett Till after he had been killed. I recoiled from his face, beaten beyond recognition, as if I were in the presence of a monster. I was just 9…
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This Is Why We Vote

This Is Why We Vote

By Shawn Dove, Anthony Smith and Ron Walker If ever there was a time for us to be the curators of the change we want to see, it is now. 2020 has brought us a horrible global pandemic and has underscored the 400 year-long pandemic of racial oppression and anti-Blackness…
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