Author Archive for: BOOM

About BOOM

Building Opportunities & Opening Minds is a youth leadership development organization for freedom-loving activist minded energies. We create spaces of affirmation, decolonization, organization, and innovation for young visionaries committed to liberation.

Entries by BOOM

Gladys Benitez

November 22, 2023/in PEOPLE/by BOOM

Jordan Stearn

November 22, 2023/in PEOPLE/by BOOM

Jamie LeShaé Jenkins

November 22, 2023/in PEOPLE/by BOOM

Pillars

August 2, 2022/in Education/by BOOM

Black History Month 2017

January 31, 2017/in Education/by BOOM

I’m thinking about you all given everything that is happening in our country and world right now. This is certainly a challenging time for many people, especially for students, who may not know how to make sense of it. You and the work that you are doing as educators, organizers and fighters for justice and […]

The Actual Problem

May 9, 2016/in History/by BOOM

The descendants of Black-Africans in global diaspora are survivors of a 500-year legacy of legalized systemic racial oppression – slavery, segregation, colonization, and criminalization – that continues to impede the progress and survival of African (Black) people, particularly in the United States, though the oppression of Black people is so deeply rooted that anti-Black racism […]