If you care about justice, equity, and empowerment, 
You Belong Here.

We commit ourselves to group-centered leadership as envisioned by our foremother Ella Baker, which serves as a counter to patriarchal, messianic leadership forms and empowers a collective leadership structure. We commit to engaging in the ongoing work of Black liberation and support our collective efforts to secure Black freedom, through:

 

1. Political education

 

2. Direct action and rapid response

 

3. Chapter to Chapter support and collaboration

 

4. Strategic campaigns and activities that seek to change the material conditions of Black people and build local power

 

5. Seizing critical momentum to push toward tangible change for Black folks including driving national and global moments

 

6. Local, regional, national, and global coalition work

 

7. Building and holding Black-life affirming spaces that integrate healing justice

 

8. Direct support of families impacted by state-sanctioned violence

 

9. Efforts to transform public policy

 

10. Generative and affirming Black radical arts and cultural creation