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

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 ...

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.

They form two lines and, in pairs, do the spiritual dances of Chingo, a rite-of-passage dance with criss-crossed leg movements; the Lingen, a social dance imitating a bird's flight; and Niaka, a ...

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 ...

Africa Some areas south of Sudan capital at risk of famine, says World Food Programme 12:39 PM PDT · Updated 17 min ago Spain gradually restoring power after outage on Canaries' La Palma ...

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.