Black Feminist Future
{{Short description|African American community initiative}}
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Black Feminist Future is a community initiative formed by members of the African American feminist community, with the aim of amplifying the power of black women and girls in community organizing and online engagement.{{cite web|url=http://www.blackfeministfuture.org/about/|title=About|publisher=Black Feminist Future}} The group was formed in reaction to the aftermath of a police shooting at Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.colorlines.com/articles/black-feminists-respond-ferguson|title=Black Feminists Respond to Ferguson|date=22 August 2014 |publisher=ColorLines}} August 22, 2014.
In the aftermath of the shooting of Korryn Gaines, Black Feminist Future urged people across the country to build altars to honor black women.{{cite web|url=https://m.mic.com/articles/amp/151051/altars-for-korryn-gaines-other-black-women-killed-by-police-pop-up-in-several-cities|title=Altars for Korryn Gaines, Other Black Women Killed by Police Pop Up in Several Cities|publisher=}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Initiatives
In wake of the 2016 United States Presidential election, the group launched an initiative named "Freedom Dreams: Black Feminist Visioning Our Political Future".{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackfeministfuture.org/visioning-salons/|title=Visioning Salons|website=Black Feminist Future|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-05|archive-date=2018-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702125914/http://www.blackfeministfuture.org/visioning-salons/|url-status=dead}} The initiative includes making "visioning salons" to build vision and movement that centers the African-American feminist lives. The aim is affecting politics and revising the laws which are believed to incorporate racial discrimination.{{cite web|url=http://www.blackfeministfuture.org/visioning-salons/|title=Visioning Salons|website=Black Feminist Future|access-date=2017-08-12|archive-date=2018-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702125914/http://www.blackfeministfuture.org/visioning-salons/|url-status=dead}}
Black Feminist Future is launching an organizing school in 2018 where they will provides resources for new Black feminists to analyze, train, and organize their own events and movements.{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackfeministfuture.org/black-feminist-organizing-school/|title=Black Feminist Organizing School|website=Black Feminist Future|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-05}}
People
Paris Hatcher is a founder of the movement.{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackfeministfuture.org/visioning-salons/|title=Visioning Salons|website=Black Feminist Future|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-24|archive-date=2018-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702125914/http://www.blackfeministfuture.org/visioning-salons/|url-status=dead}}
Jessica Byrd, founder of [https://www.threepointstrategies.org/ Three Point Strategies], a firm dedicated to recruiting more people of color to run for public office, is a board member of Black Feminist Future.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbcblk28/meet-nbcblk28-n507856|title=Meet the #NBCBLK28|website=NBC News |publisher=}}
See also
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Category:African-American feminism
Category:Black feminist organizations
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