African-centered rites of passage programs can combat dehumanizing systems and help Black youth navigate their transition into adulthood. Support BROPI in Baltimore.

Recommending Oba Erediauwa to President Tinubu”, this is the response I got from one of the Benin Palace functionaries:“Making mention of the year Oba Erediauwa reigned on the throne of his forebears ...

Dr Ochieng explains that in many African cultures, rites of passage like circumcision or initiation camps are seen as sacred, transformative rituals, moments that define the shift from childhood ...

The North Tampa African Alliance invites you to attend the Rite of Passage Ball and enjoy food from around the world, dancing and a ceremony. The ceremony takes place on the first day of Kwanzaa ...

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His son, a Rites of Passage graduate, is a student there. "We're not a recruiting arm for Morehouse," Anthony Brown, a federal prosecutor who is the program's other co-chairman, said, laughing.

That activity was an elaborate rite-of-passage ceremony held Friday in SENSES Village, 350 Genesee St., for a dozen African-American high school juniors and seniors who have excelled in academics ...

Wayne L. Thornhill and his wife, Michelle Thornhill, started the Thornhill Rites of Passage Foundation in 2016. The couple live in Charlotte and have two sons.

Baltimore and cities like it need to move toward making African-centered rites of passage a centerpiece of the work to help Black youth navigate the societal propaganda that dehumanizes Black youth.