Alliance for Boys and Men of Color

Network advancing race & gender justice by creating opportunity & transforming policies failing boys & men of color. #HealingTogether #HealthyManhood

[Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin]

CMB @CommunityMvt has completed phase 1 of our new Community Production Center, complete with 3d & laser printers. This is a space where community members can create, design, build, i.e. produce goods to meet needs. All hosted at the CMB farm Love, Land and Liberation

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

People are hurting financially, mentally and physically which often can lead to people taking it out on the people in closest proximity to them, especially around the holidays.

I want to remind folks that we’ve expanded this helpline to California so that people at risk of causing harm, or those using abuse values can get community-based and healing-centered accountability. The number is below. Share it with your people.

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

Speaking on our work with @AllianceforBMOC and the importance of coalition building. It’s necessary but it isn’t easy.

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

"Community organizing is both a science and an art — a science because it is grounded in a systematic understanding of power and oppression, an art because it demands creativity, empathy, and adaptability in order to build relationships and trust."

- James Forman

[IG: OHBEVIN @theroyalbadness]

We need more of this. Great work!!!!

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

This week, I testified before the Select Committee on Effective Postsecondary Career Technical Education (CTE) and Workforce Development Programs and why it matters for young people furthest from opportunity.

For the last several years, @AllianceforBMOC has been helping lead the fight to build real, paid pathways into good careers for opportunity youth. Alongside @WeAreYouthWill and California Opportunity Youth Network, we worked with @SenMariaEDurazo to establish the California Opportunity Youth Apprenticeship (COYA) Grant Program — because too many young people were locked out of the apprenticeship system, even as California faces major workforce shortages.

COYA is about more than training. It’s about building relationships between community-based organizations, labor, education, and employers so young people who’ve been disconnected from school or work can earn while they learn and move into high-paying, stable careers.

Over the last two years, California has made a historic investment in opportunity youth through the California Opportunity Youth Apprenticeship (COYA) that we established. Across two rounds, COYA has awarded more than $46 million to 80 programs to build and expand registered pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship pathways. These investments are supporting thousands of young people who face barriers to employment—connecting them to paid, high-quality career pathways in high-demand industries through partnerships with community-based organizations, labor, education, and employers.

Proud of the role ABMoC continues to play in shaping youth apprenticeship policy in California — and committed to keeping the focus on real pathways, real wages, and real opportunity. Thank you @AsmMikeFong for the invite and we’re looking forward to collaborating this year on AB 805.

[The Worker Agency @TheWorkerAgency]

"If we shift our perspective from managing to prevention, we can look at how we might change the conditions that lead to domestic violence all year long."

- @jacpatrissi and @AllianceforBMOC in @bostonherald

https://t.co/qlZLZofPM0

[Isaac G. Bryan @ib2_real]

We did our part, community has done their part… it’s time for the Governor to sign AB 7

[California Pan-Ethnic Health Network @CPEHN]

Dr. David Turner III, Senior Advisor with the @AllianceforBMOC and Assistant Professor at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, on why coming together for #VoicesForChange is helping us meet this moment.

Thanks for being part of our plenary, Dr. Turner!

[The Worker Agency @TheWorkerAgency]

Incredible piece in the @guardian by @Ericangelo_ms of @AllianceforBMOC on where we stand five years after the uprisings of 2020:

https://t.co/OiUxGWl6IX

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

We are not witnessing the arrival of fascism. We are watching it evolve and expand.

And let’s be clear: this authoritarian turn didn’t begin with Trump. It was built – brick by brick – in Democratic strongholds.

[Critical Trap Theory @dr_dct3]

Check out our new piece in the Guardian!

Has America learned anything from the George Floyd uprisings? | ⁦@Ericangelo_ms⁩ and David Turner III https://t.co/QLUVBJ3dNV

[Susie Symes @susiesymes1]

“If we built this country under chains, imagine what we could build in freedom. But freedom doesn’t come from waiting. It comes from organizing, resisting, and refusing to let our labor, our lives, or our liberation be commodified again. …”

[Matthew J. Hunter @MattHunterMCR]

Great article 👇

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

Five years after George Floyd was murdered, the state isn’t just doubling down — it’s building an entire war machine to crush our communities.

Some say Trump is borrowing from the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s authoritarian playbook.

But the truth is, these tactics weren’t borrowed – they were made in America. The United States has long perfected the machinery of repression, exporting it abroad and inspiring apartheid regimes and fascist movements across the globe.

My brother @dr_kunta23 and I wrote about it in the Guardian.

Read more here: https://t.co/YBMopZyAAX

[CounterPunch @NatCounterPunch]

"What does it mean to build a country that was never meant for you?" https://t.co/9qEOeY4cto

[Alliance for Boys and Men of Color @AllianceforBMOC]

“Since its inception, the US has used economic and military force to destabilize other nations, and then criminalized the people forced to migrate as a result. This is not just a domestic issue. It’s a global system of extraction.”

Read more here: https://t.co/wGwQ4feYoL

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

My brother, @glopezoroz, and I just co-wrote a piece published in @inequalityorg: Does It Mean to Build a Country That Was Never Meant for You?

We need to create a world free from the clutches of empire. That starts with organizing and resisting.
https://t.co/jdqwENw4yU

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

My brother, @glopezoroz, and I just co-wrote a piece published in @inequalityorg: Does It Mean to Build a Country That Was Never Meant for You?

We need to create a world free from the clutches of empire. That starts with organizing and resisting.
https://t.co/jdqwENw4yU

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

We’re not just fighting to tear down what harms us — we’re fighting to build something we can co-create and co-govern. A world where everyone belongs, regardless of borders, birthplace, or background. Where care is a collective responsibility, and resources are distributed not by profit, but by need. Where no one is disposable, and our worth isn’t measured by productivity, but by our full humanity. A world rooted in the right to stay, to move, to heal, to be safe, and to self-determine.

[E @Ericangelo_ms]

My people! It’s a crazy time. People are hurting financially, mentally and physically which often can lead to people taking it out on the people in closest proximity to them.

I want to remind folks that we’ve expanded this helpline to California so that people at risk of causing harm, or those using abuse values can get community-based and healing-centered accountability. The number is below. Share it with your people.