🎉 Excitement is in the air!
Get ready to be part of something extraordinary at Sankofa Scholarship Collective's 2nd Annual Shades Of Black Ball & Scholarship Fundraiser.
It's an event like no other, and we want you to be there! 🎉
Every registration to this event, sponsorship of a student, and contribution to a scholarship will bring us closer to achieving our mission.
Together, we can create a brighter, more compassionate world for all.
This impactful fundraising gala will take place on
Friday, June 20, 2025,
at the historic and beautiful Garden Theater in Detroit.
Our powerful theme for this year’s event is “Not Like Us”, symbolizing the unique brilliance, resilience, and unmatched potential of our children.
Thank you for supporting our mission, your support is invaluable!
Join Us For...
Dr. Joi Spencer & Dr. Kerri Ullucci
Anti-Blackness at School, Continued…
Authors + Professors Dr. Joi Spencer and Dr. Kerri Ullucci will focus on the continuing plague which threatens our youth: anti-Blackness at school. In this conversation, they will explore the many iterations of anti-Blackness and how colorblindness is an ineffective response to inequity in schools. Kerri and Joi will also model how to unpack hard conversations about race through a series of engaging scenarios. Join this important conversation about the experiences of Black youth at school and the obstacles that diminish their educational journeys.
June 4th, 2025 @ 11 AM EST
This intensive is designed to provide doctoral students with a dedicated week to focus on developing the foundational chapters of their dissertation prospectus, proposal, and dissertation project. Through structured writing sessions, presentations, coaching from researchers and faculty, personalized feedback, and peer support, participants will make significant progress toward completing the first three (3) chapters of their dissertation projects.
Application Deadline:
Applications are due April 4, 2025. Acceptance notifications will be sent during the first week of April 2025. Emailed applications will not be accepted.
Program Fees:
Participants must pay their registration deposit by the appropriate deadlines to hold their spots.
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The early registration fee is $800 before April 11, 2025
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The late registration fee is $1100 after April 11, 2025
To hold your spot, all registration deposits must be received by April 11, 2025. Failure to pay the registration deposit will void your participation in the Sankofa Research Intensive.
RESEARCH INTENSIVE
2025 Conference
This is our 5th year anniversary! 2025 marks our 5th time offering a FREE, virtual conference for folks around the globe to come together and celebrate the power and potential of Black children. This is our 5th opportunity to identify the ways Black folks show up brilliant, buoyant, and bountiful, ready to teach and learn in schools not prepared to see, serve, and secure us. This is our 5th mix, calling out all the ways schooling spaces are not like us.
Sometimes you gotta
pop out & show 'em!
Class Details
A new module will open each week of the six-week session. There are 36 State of Michigan SCECH credits included in the price of this certificate. Please contact ppat@emich.edu with any questions.
Course Fee (USD): $299.00
Registration Closes On
Monday, March 3, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
The Michigan Department of Education's efforts to support African American students began in 2015 with the creation of the African American Young Men of Promise Initiative (AAYMPI). In 2017, the Initiative expanded to include the support for young Black men and women in Michigan schools through the African American Student Initiative (AASI). To date, the AASI is the only State-level Initiative to reach classrooms and has engaged with over 1,500 Michigan educators.
Each year the Initiative is designed to take educators on a journey that focuses on personal and professional transformation by providing the brave space to reflect and dialogue about topics that are central to our collective humanity. Together educators engage in learning that explores facets of their cultural selves and the intersection of their multiple identities. Additionally, the Initiative equips educators to examine and interrogate individual and collective values and beliefs to eliminate marginalization, disparities, and disproportionality within Michigan schools. Integrating knowledge, skills, and behaviors that systemically eradicate racism and advance diversity, justice, equity, and inclusion is the core of this Initiative.