ABSTRACT
"The greatest success of African American Male Achievement (AAMA)", explains Jerome Gourdine, "is sheer endurance". The organization has been growing non-stop since its inception. "Starting from a department of one with no budget to now a department of over thirty between facilitators, administrative, and office staff to engage, encourage, and empower our Kings has been a testament to following a vision to implementation to sustainability". The AAMA has been in operation for eight years. In the last year, however, a lot of has shifted that informs the ways one think about our liberation from miseducation and the role school districts can-and must-play in this fight. The pathways that AAMA has constructed over the last several years represent a transformative lifeline to the traditional schooling model. Superintendent Antwan Wilson, has an unflinching commitment to social justice issues, but that, in and of itself, does not sustain institutional transformation.
