2026 JUSTICE FOR BLACK GIRLS NATIONAL CONFERENCE.
a transformative one-day convening dedicated to advancing the freedom, healing, and safety of Black girls.
Hosted by Justice for Black Girls—a national intellectual and organizing institution around Black girlhood—this biennial conference brings together young people, educators, policymakers, organizers, scholars, and stakeholders for a powerful day of learning, strategy, joy, and collective imagination.
At the heart of the conference are Black girls themselves- JBG Ambassadors and Research Fellows are platformed as scholars, organizers, cultural architects, and knowledge producers shaping national conversations on Black girlhood. Grounded in the power of young people and intergenerational exchange, they present original research, policy analysis, and cultural critique alongside world-renowned scholars, advocates, organizers, and cultural leaders.
With more than 500 attendees expected, the conference creates an intentional space for adults, institutions, and communities to listen deeply to the intellectual, activist, and cultural work of Black girls and gender-expansive youth.
This work is not only about naming harm—it is about reclamation, revisiting the roadmaps of our ancestors, and building liberated futures. Attendees will experience creative and wellness activations that celebrate the beauty, nostalgia, and possibility of Black girlhood while affirming Black girls’ right to tenderness, rest, and care.
Now more than ever, we need spaces that love Black girls out loud—spaces that affirm their brilliance, fullness, and power. The Justice for Black Girls National Conference is both an intervention and a reflection of the liberated spaces Black girls, femmes, and gender-expansive youth are calling for.
2025 conference
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Past national conferences
2022 virtual conference
2021 Virtual Conference
justice for black girls
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everyblackgirl
sunday, october 31st 2020 |12pm-5pmest
2020 Virtual Conference
justice for black girls
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everyblackgirl
sunday, october 25th 2020 |12pm-6pmest
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2019 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
saturday, october 12th 2019 | 11am-5pm EST
Justice for Black Girls hosted its first national conference at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in New York City on October 12th, 2019. We hoped the conference would accomplish a few goals that would help advance our core missions: to dismantle societal systems that relegate Black girls to lives characterized by abuse and state violence.
To that end, the conference offered meaningful education and resources to people striving to elevate the voices of Black girls and created spaces, authorized by justice, to do so. Therefore, we launched the cash bail funds and scholarships for formerly incarcerated girls and girls pursuing activism projects. Additionally, we established a social justice curriculum based on the experiences of Black girls. Th Black Girlhood Curriculum, aimed at teachers, provides lessons on liberation pedagogy for girls in schools and those who are system involved.
We also hosted Black Girl Activist Meetups, a networking event for middle and high school students, along with two workshops, “Black Women’s Healing: Loving Black Girls Better Than We Were Loved Ourselves,” and “Understanding the Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline and he Over Criminalization of Black Girls.”
To further educate people about the systemic oppression of Black girls in America, we curated a virtual hosting space to view the film PUSHOUT, a documentary that takes an I-depth look at how schools criminalize Black girls. Monique W. Morris, the award-winning author who produced and co-wrote the film, was there to lead an intimate discussion about the film as well as wrote the book on which it was based, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools.
Most importantly, the organizers of the Justice for Black Girls 2019 National Conference hoped that, in coming together to further our understanding about dismantling systems of oppression, we would find liberation in the magic of our convening. We did just that, enabling Black girls to imagine a life beyond the confining structures of which they currently live.
