“Freedom is experienced as deliberation, decision and responsibility.” —Martin Luther King Jr. It’s time for black leaders to end our Stepin Fetchit approach to racial equity. Overemphasizing our failings has unified friend and foe in defining black people by poverty, pathology, and...
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Who Are We
BMe Community is an award-winning network of innovators, leaders, and champions who invest in aspiring communities. We train leading organizations in matters of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We run the most remarkable fellowships for Black leaders in the nation.
What We Do
Asset-Framing
Teaches leading organization executives how to achieve success in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Impact.
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Genius Fellows
Celebrates Black men for their community building efforts by welcoming them into an extraordinary leadership family.
Vanguard Fellows
Elevates Black people by optimizing their knowledge, influence, and network through an elite leadership enrichment program.
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Narrative Change
Shifts the narrative of Black America from denigrating distortions to one that defines it by its aspirations and contributions.
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Detroit raised him. Now this designer is bringing up the next generation of clothing makers.
By Lakeitha Grey | December 20, 2019
Along Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion, a historic shopping district on Livernois Avenue between McNichols and 8 Mile roads, construction is making it next to impossible to find a place to park near Three Thirteen, a boutique founded and curated by...
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The Largest Black-Owned Bank Teams Up With BMe Community To Close The Racial Wealth Gap
By Lakeitha Grey | November 15, 2019
Last week, the trailer for The Banker was released, which is a film that tells the story of one of the first Black banks in America in the 1950-60s. Over fifty years later, OneUnited Bank is the largest Black-owned bank in America...
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BMe Uniting Black Veterans For Love & Power To The People
By Leonard Hammonds II | August 12, 2019
Patriotism. Veteran. Service. What comes to mind when you hear these words? With a quick Google search of the word “veteran,” the image that seems to become redundant and often engrained in the minds of most is not that of...
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The Deficit Framing of Black Entrepreneurship in Foundations, Corporations, and Media
By feleciahatcher | July 11, 2019
On a daily basis we are bombarded with negative news and alarming statistics about Black individuals and communities. The negative representation of Black people is well documented, and reverberates through the representation of Black entrepreneurs. Too often, governments and leading...
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D.C. Full of Young Nipseys Eager to Innovate and Dismantle Injustice
By Kevin Beckford | July 10, 2019
When Nipsey Hussle (born Ermias Asghedom) passed, the world lost something special. We lost our brother. Our community lost a revolutionary thinker. The world lost an innovator. The murder of Nipsey shook the hip-hop world and community. His sudden and...
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Giving Circles: Growing Community By Elevating Black Women + Girls of Color
By Jessyca Dudley | July 9, 2019
An Interview With The South Side Queenmakers This is the fourth in our new blog series featuring Giving Circles - groups of friends, family, and neighbors who gather to learn about issues that interest them and pool money to fund greater...
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The traditional mental health system is failing the black community
By juliusboatwright | July 8, 2019
African-Americans need better access to mental health facilities and practitioners who understand the black experience According to the 2019 State of Mental Health in America Report published by Mental Health America, Pennsylvania has a relatively low prevalence of mental illness...
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It’s time we listen to words of Frederick Douglass
By Mark E. McCormick | July 4, 2019
Despite what you may have heard, abolitionist and statesman Frederick Douglass died in 1895. Still, the racial America Douglass exhorted to live up to its ideals languishes, particularly though the lens of a Rochester, NY speech he gave 167 years...
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Military spends more on Viagra than on transgender recruits. So why ban trans?
By Benjamin Carlton | July 1, 2019
The transgender community is under attack by the federal government, and President Trump is leading the charge. On June 14, a federal appeals court ordered a judge to reconsider her ruling against Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from the military. The...
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