WHAT WE DO.
PROGRAMS & PROJECTS.
Through projects like Lifting As They Climbed and Invisible Giants, Protect Black Girls Coalition, Kemtiyu Arts & Media amplifies the radical contributions of Black women in Chicago, ensuring their intellectual and organizing legacies remain foundational to present and future movements.
With deep commitments to Chicago’s South and West Side communities, the organization creates educational resources, produces transformative media, and builds organizing tools ensuring that communities have the resources to resist oppressive forces and reclaim agency over their lives.
Resource
Development
The development of books, organizing resources and creative tools rooted in care and autonomy, that highlight the power of our communities, organizations and collectives
Organizing
Tools
We equip communities with organizing tools, strategies, and mapping for safety and resistance of present and future generations
Cultivating
Education
We provide class visits, teacher workshops, and curriculum development, ensuring Black history and radical traditions remain accessible and transformative
Consultation &
Creative Direction
We support and guide historical preservation, educational awareness, knowledge cultivation justice-centered archival work and so much more.
Workshop
Facilitation
We create spaces where imagination and liberation intertwine, guiding participants through deep reflection and collective visioning
Community
Engagement
We conduct immersive tours and learning series, bridging past and present histories to illuminate the contributions, movements and legacies in our communities.
