CEA Team

What is education today, if it does not serve our underserved Black students? From Brown v. Board of Education  to the post-Reconstruction era , our ancestors, many of them newly freed, built Freedom and Liberation Schools  to teach  truth, culture, and survival. They understood that education was not just about reading and arithmetic; it was about reclaiming identity and resisting erasure. Today, we face a new enemy, the Education Industrial Complex , systems controlled by corporate entities...

Dr Joy DeGruy In every community, there are people who help us see more clearly, who give us the language and tools to understand what...

I was loyal to the block but in the end it wasn't loyal to me. I die today alone in a dark place on the block, trying to mask life’s pain...