OUR MISSION

Justice for Black Girls exists to disrupt the educational, carceral, and cultural systems that harm Black girls while building liberated learning, organizing, and cultural spaces where Black girls ages 13–24 can thrive, lead, and shape the future.

Justice for Black Girls is building a national intellectual and organizing institution around Black girlhood—one that recognizes Black girls as producers of knowledge, cultural architects, and agents of transformative social change. Recognizing Black girls as experts on the conditions impacting their lives, JBG centers the research, intellectual contributions, organizing strategies, and creative visions of Black girls themselves—creating spaces where they can engage this work with joy, care, and collective power.

Rooted in Black feminist thought, youth epistemology, and a holistic culture of care, Justice for Black Girls advances social justice education, youth-led research, healing-centered engagement, grassroots organizing, and academic collaboration. Through culturally rooted curriculum, national programming, research initiatives, and strategic partnerships, JBG cultivates spaces where Black girls experience safety, belonging, intellectual affirmation, and the freedom to imagine and actualize new possibilities for their communities and beyond.