Privacy Policy 2 — Justice for Black Girls

We believe that Black girls are PRODUCERS of knowledge AND EXPERTS ON THE ISSUES THAT IMPACT THEM. We AFFIRM BLACK GIRLS AS CULTURAL ARCHITECTS AND AGENTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE.

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 are affirmed as scholars, organizers, storytellers, and cultural architects.

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.

vision

Justice for Black Girls envisions a world fundamentally shaped by the genius, power, and innovation of Black girls.

We envision educational, cultural, political, and social institutions transformed through the intellectual contributions and creative visions of Black girls—and communities equipped to recognize, protect, and sustain their brilliance.

Our vision is for a world where Black girls do not have to survive their way into freedom. Where their safety is not conditional, their knowledge does not require adult validation to be legitimate, and their creativity is not extracted without recognition. A world where Black girls have access to the conditions necessary for their intellectual, emotional, cultural, and collective thriving.

We believe Black girls are already producing the knowledge, strategies, art, and possibilities necessary to imagine more liberated futures. Our work is toward a world expansive enough to honor what they know, responsive enough to meet what they demand, and transformed enough for Black girls to experience freedom in their lifetimes.