BE Smart Talks with BMe Founder Trabian Shorters
TS: There are intense inflection points in history—for example, right now the U.S. is in an identity struggle. In the very near future brown people...
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How Personalized Learning Works at One Charter School
How is MC2 similar to the work of Shorters and the UCLA researchers? It uses an assets-based learning profile for each student, and recognizes that...
Young Black and Latino Men Are Thriving
But recently, a team of researchers at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies led by Professor Tyrone Howard has challenged that singular...
BE Modern Man: BMe Community Honors Distinguished Men from Across the Country in Washington, D.C.
BMe began as a project of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Originally intended to get more Black males positively engaged in communities....
HBCU Students Win BE Smart Case Competition
One team experienced technical difficulties—but remained unflappable. Another used impressive primary research; still another included extensive background on competitors; but the team that won presented...
Reframing the Narrative Around Black Men
It's an untold story: Black men are assets in the U.S. They are patriots, entrepreneurs, teachers, police lieutenants, Fortune 500 executives, and more....
#BlackMenLove: The Movement
It sounds like a sexy relationship hashtag, but it's actually something better....