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Black Child Journal

About Us

What is the Black Child Journal?

Founded in 1979, by Useni Eugene Perkins, the Black Child Journal is published bi-annually by the Black Child Journal in collaboration with the National Rites of Passage Institute. The Black Child Journal was created as a means to advocate for Black children and their families by accomplishing the following objectives:

Objectives

To provide relevant information on critical issues, history, and culture that impact Black children and their families; 

In-Depth Analysis

To provide an in-depth analysis of substantive policies and programs which can improve the overall welfare of Black children and their families; 

Voice for the Voiceless

To provide activists, practitioners, and scholars with a literary voice to share their practices, research, and views that can best serve the needs of Black children and their families.

About

Rites of Passage is a timeless African tradition that intentionally guides a person’s holistic development through life’s transitions using rituals and ceremonies for the discovery of their purpose and responsibility to build healthy and just communities. 

Rites of Passage, as a developmental and transformational process, is culturally specific – not universal. It is based on the premise that a group must recognize and affirm itself before it is able to share and appreciate the differences of others.


Rites of Passage also recognizes that entry into adult life involves the realization of social obligations and the assumption of responsibility for meeting them. Initiation sets a time on the journey for bringing individuals into formal and explicit relations with their kindred. It strengthens social ties for the day that they will be tested.

Rites of Passage not only provides self-development and cultural awareness, it fosters a sense of belonging. Adolescents will become part of community life; not persons alone, lacking support, sanction, and purpose.


The National Rites of Passage Institute (NROPI), in collaboration with communities, organizations, practitioners, and scholars, has been elevating the value of culturally-based Rites of Passage in youth and community development for more than 30 years.


NROPI is a national hub, a cultural learning center, and a clearinghouse for providing information, training, programming, technical assistance, consulting, assessment, and intentional conversations on African-Centered Rites of Passage for child, youth and community development.


One of the major goals of NROPI is to be a voice for African-centered Rites of Passage in conversations, nationally and internationally, on child and youth development and village building.

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We cannot escape our origins, however hard we might try, those origins contain the key — could we but find it — to all that we later become.

                                              - James Baldwin


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Editorial Board

Publisher

Useni Eugene Perkins

Co-Publisher

Paul Hill Jr. 

Editor

Michael C. Edwards, Ed.D.

Associate Editor

Atiba Coppock, Ph.D.  

Associate Editor

Timothy D. Goler, Ph.D.  

Legal Advisor

Marian Perkins-Phillips 

Special Advisor

Ronald Hill   

 

Editorial Advisory Board

Wade Nobles, Ph.D.

Safisha Madhubuti, Ph.D.

Safisha Madhubuti, Ph.D.

Safisha Madhubuti, Ph.D.

Safisha Madhubuti, Ph.D.

Safisha Madhubuti, Ph.D.

Billie Adams, M.D.

Safisha Madhubuti, Ph.D.

Louis Henderson, M.S.W.

Louis Henderson, M.S.W.

Peter, K.B. St. Jean, Ph.D

Louis Henderson, M.S.W.

Peter, K.B. St. Jean, Ph.D

Peter, K.B. St. Jean, Ph.D

Peter, K.B. St. Jean, Ph.D

Terry Solomon, Ph.D.

Peter, K.B. St. Jean, Ph.D

Peter, K.B. St. Jean, Ph.D

George E. Smith

Carl Bell, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

Walidah Bennett

Walidah Bennett

Carl Bell, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

Walidah Bennett

Carl Bell, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

Carl Bell, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

Carl Bell, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

Philip Jackson (Fallen Oak)

Francis Cress-Welsing, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

Carl Bell, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

Francis Cress-Welsing, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

Francis Cress-Welsing, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

Francis Cress-Welsing, M.D. (Fallen Oak)

“We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.” - African Proverb

Partners

Dr. Nicole Ausmer and Hey Black Child Podcast

https://www.nicoleausmer.com/hey-black-child-the-podcast 


Youth Resiliency Institute-Baltimore

bcyri.org


African American Enterprise Resource Center

www.aaerc.org 


Golden Ciphers Youth Development and Cultural Arts Center

goldenciphers1.com


Ankobea-Pan Afrikan Organization-Washington

https://ankobea.org/ 


Institute of Positive Education-Chicago

ipecic.org


Youth Passageways-Boulder-Kansas

youthpassageways.org


Golden Bridge-Boulder Colorado

goldenbridge.org


Restorative Passage/Omega CDC-Dayton

www.omega.org/bwg-gallery/restorative-passage


National Association of Black Social Workers-Cleveland

class.casuohio.edu/social-work/national-association-black-social-workers


National Black Child Institute--Cleveland

https://www.nbcdi.org/affiliates/cleveland 


Ohio Cleveland Association of Black Social Workers

www.ohioclevelandabsw.com


African Canadian Heritage Association (ACHA)-Toronto

www.achaonline.org


Woodgreen Community Services--Rites of Passage-Toronto

https://www.woodgreen.org/services/programs/rites-of-passage/ 


New Initiatives-London England

ritesofpassage.uk.com


BCP Digital Printing

https://www.bcpdigital.com/ 

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