Power of a Voice

Nick Young and Wale join Jeff Johnson and Depelsha McGruder to get real about discrimination in America and detail their personal experiences with racial profiling, oppression, and police encounters in Power of a Voice: a conversation on saving our black boys at the BET Experience

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Forward Promise Fellowship For Leaders

Forward Promise Announces Depelsha McGruder as Recipient of Forward Promise Fellowship for Leaders

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The Story Behind Moms Of Black Boys United

Never underestimate the power of a mother’s tears.

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Organization Moms Of Black Boys Calls On Corporations To Change Racist Narratives

Because our boys are NOT monkeys.

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Leadership Retreat held at The Mansion at Noble Lane in Bethany, PA

This past March, members of the MOBB United Leadership Team met as a group in person for the first time for our inaugural Leadership Retreat. Coincidentally, OWN just happened to be shooting a new show starring the owner, Monique Greenwood, called "Checked Inn." The production crew shot with our group, and here's a short clip from our experience there.

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MOBB United mom encourages dialogue, aims to change perception of black boys and men

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From Fear to Fortitude: One Woman’s Fight for Black Boys a Year Later

This time last year, I was curled up in a ball on my bed, in tears and feeling frustrated, angry and afraid. I was suffering from a condition I coined called “MOBB disorder,” the seemingly irrational fear of a mom of a black boy that he will be unfairly stopped, harassed, brutalized or killed by law enforcement or a person in authority and not make it back home safely.

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Multiple police shootings caught on video sparked the emergence of MOBB United - a nationwide coalition of mothers determined to support each other, while they also protect their black sons from unjustified deadly force.

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Host Toni Williams interviews two women making a difference in the way that our boys and men are being perceived.

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Depelsha speaks candidly about the realities and stresses of being a mother of black sons and what M.O.B.B. United is doing to change perceptions, stop the killings, and foster true and lasting change to give their sons hope for life and equality

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MOBB United (Moms Of Black Boys) Is In Full FORMATION!

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If raising a Black child in America wasn’t hard enough already, imagine the challenge of raising Black sons during a time of increased racial tension, marked by the high-profile shootings of Black men and boys at the hands of police.

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Worried About Your Black Son? Join Moms of Black Boys United

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Brooklyn Mom Creates Facebook Group, ‘Mothers Of Black Boys’

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"Unjustified killing of black men and boys by police officers without accountability must stop," said MoBBU founder Depelsha McGruder. "Our sons will not be your reality show. They will not be a hashtag."

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July 2016

When Depelsha McGruder, 43, of Brooklyn, started a Facebook group called "M.O.B.B. - Mothers of Black Boys" earlier this month, she didn't expect that by the end of July it would grow to include almost 117,000 moms from all over the country, all concerned for their black sons in their interactions with police.

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Brooklyn mother starts Facebook page encouraging other moms to discuss their fears, concern

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1 Mother Had Enough of Being Afraid for Her Sons, so She Did Something About It

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The Chris Gunther Show - November 2023
Posted by Beth Lunde · November 27, 2023 12:00 AM

Everything Urban (eurweb.com) - November 2023
Posted by Beth Lunde · November 17, 2023 12:00 AM

LinkedIn - October 2023
Posted by Beth Lunde · October 26, 2023 12:00 PM

M.O.B.B. United mourns the tragic loss of Exoneree Leonard Allen Cure. After being wrongfully convicted of an armed robbery, Leonard spent sixteen of his fifty-three years behind bars in a Florida prison. Three years after his conviction was overturned and he was completely exonerated of any wrongdoing, and only two months after being awarded $817,000 by the state of Florida in compensation, Leonard was killed during a traffic stop on October 16, 2023 in Camden County, GA. He was traveling to his Georgia home after visiting his mother in Florida. The details of the traffic stop have not been released but are being investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.