Vision
The vision of A²MEND is to transform higher education with a specific focus on community colleges while creating educational healing spaces where Black males are free to be successful as defined by their history, culture, and current circumstances. To achieve our vision, we strive to:
- Be the leading influencer of educational policy and practice for Black males.
- Transform the educational enterprise into a system of pro-Blackness.
- Lead and advance the implementation of African-centered education in Africa and throughout the diaspora.
- Create and support independent and quasi-independent educational institutions centered on African epistemologies and practices.
- Build racial trauma healing and wellness training center(s) for professionals.
- Prepare Black men to be exceptional professionals, family leaders, and community advocates.
- Create parallel opportunities and spaces for Black women in their educational and professional development.
- Expand A²MEND’s student charters to colleges and universities nationwide.
Mission
A²MEND’s mission is to advocate for the academic, psychological and spiritual development of Black male students, faculty, staff and administrators in educational systems.
A²MEND educators utilize their scholarship, professional expertise and influence to foster institutional change while creating independent educational spaces and institutions to increase the success of Black male students within education and other systems.