justice for black girls 2025 conference
The Justice for Black Girls National Conference highlights Black girls as theorists of our own experiences, freedom fighters, resistors, creatives and innovators. This year, we center the sacred processes of remembering and reclamation. Now more than ever we need spaces that unconditionally love Black girls out loud, space that affirm the power & genius of young people, spaces that revisit the roadmaps our ancestors left & spaces that reclaim. Here, we believe that Black girls aren’t just the future, they are fundamental pillars of history and architects of so much that is wonderful right now.
This work is about recognizing Black girls as stakeholders. It’s about listening, learning and loving. This conference is about communal pledges to Black girl liberation. This conference is about creating the liberated spaces that Black girls have always deserved.✊🏾
This conference centers the genius of Black girls ages 12-24, but we welcome ALL committed to the safety and liberation of Black girls. We can’t wait to convene in November! (We also suggest that ticket holders are at least 12 years old)
2023
thank you to our sponsors
Past national conferences
2022 virtual conference
2021 Virtual Conference
justice for black girls
means
everyblackgirl
sunday, october 31st 2020 |12pm-5pmest
2020 Virtual Conference
justice for black girls
means
everyblackgirl
sunday, october 25th 2020 |12pm-6pmest
we’re proud to announce and thank our partners
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.
