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We work to end rape/sexual assault in Black communities and on Historically Black College and University (HBCU) campuses.
Together, we can bring child sexual abuse out of the shadows and train the entire community to prevent and intervene in the sexual exploitation of Black youth.
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Taking care of one another and our families means transcending the transactional relationships of capitalism. We pool the resources we receive to build alternative barter models for meeting our needs and help Black women pursue their professional goals through non-traditional employment opportunities.
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Sustaining collective action and fighting back against police brutality and the all-too-common state-sponsored abuse of incarcerated Black women are top priorities for us, and should be a cornerstone of every single movement for racial and gender justice.
READ MOREWe work to end rape/sexual assault in Black communities and on Historically Black College and University (HBCU) campuses.
We believe that economic equality is the unfinished business of the civil rights struggle.
We are organizing against racialized and sexualized criminal justice violence as it specifically impacts women of color.
12 members of Black Women's Blueprint traveled to Oklahoma City - ten of us by van - to show support for the survivors of former police officer, Daniel Holtzclaw during his sentencing. For many of us, we could easily have lived half a lifetime within the range of emotions and obstacles we sat with and fought through.
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In 2009, at the New Jersey Governor’s Conference for Women in Atlantic City, I sat under the sound of one of most beautiful voices I had ever heard. She was assisted onto the stage, and into a chair where her body, though frail, sat tall. Her shoulders evoked an eagle’s wings - broad, regal.
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The morning after an all-white jury recommended ex-cop, and now-convicted rapist Daniel Holtzclaw to receive 263 years in prison, political strategist and crisis management professional Tezlyn Figaro stood next to two of Holtzclaw’s victims (now survivors) on the steps of the Oklahoma City courthouse waiting to speak.
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