Racial Equity Community Innovators Incubator (RECII)

RECII is the first incubator focused on building an essential infrastructure to seed community-grounded innovations that build long-term and sustainable political, economic, and cultural power for black and brown communities globally.

2019Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024

Racial Equity Small Enterprise Recovery Project

This project is aimed at coordinating activities aimed at assisting businesses that have been affected by the civil unrest in KZN that caused substantial loss to businesses.

Race Narratives Through Hip-Hop

The project will be a year-long podcast series that will profile 6 current and former Black hip-hop artists whose work addresses themes of race, history, space and struggle.

2020Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Youth, Narrative, Identity

Movement for Collective Action and Racial Equity (Movement4CARE)

A municipalist movement of people, communities and organisations in Cape Town, brought together by the desire to organise collectively and build progressive and transformative politics centred in action, care and equity.

The More Collective

The More Collective is community, culture, and storytelling through healing. An unapologetic offering to honor the humanity and nuances of the black healing experience.

2020Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Healing, Mental Health, Narrative

Mapping the Global Quest for Racial Equity in Higher Education

This project explores current practices used to set admission criteria for underrepresented groups within critical skills fields with the aim of establishing whether these practices meet the objective of racial equity.

Leadership Building and Critical Consciousness Raising

The focus of the project is on structured political education series, that is aimed at answering some of the political and theoretical questions by black young women living on commercial farms in Mgungundlovu district in Kwa-Zulu Natal.

2018Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Land Reform, Women, Leadership Development

Kin

kin is a project concerned with food justice, looking to create a model rooted in ‘sufficiency’ as a practice.

2020Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Food, Health, Dialogues

Khalil’s Got Love: Building Asset-Based Narratives for Black Youth through Children’s Literature

In my project, I will promote asset-based narratives of Black youth through a self-published children’s book project celebrating Black urban culture and the beauty of Black family in all its configurations.

2020Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Narrative, Youth, Media

Graphic Novel of Women in Marikana

My AFRE project has been to convert my academic publications on women in Marikana into a graphic novel.

2018Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Women, Organising, Narrative

The Fred Hampton Housing Discrimination Testing Project

On April 25, 2019, the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed the Just Housing Amendment to the Cook County Human Rights Ordinance.

2019Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Housing, Human Rights, Criminal Justice

Flux | Crafting Black Imagination

Flux | Crafting Black Imagination is a collection of research, interviews, and stories of lived experiences about deconstructing limiting beliefs, scarcity mindsets and intergenerational tensions that arise in transitions from lack to abundance.

2019Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Mindsets, Identity, Trauma

Development of the Los Angeles Center for Community Organizing

Initiate planning for the development of a people of color led: 1) national organizing school on cross racial organizing…

2018Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Organising, Strategy, Education

Creation of an Anti-Racism Training Toolkit for Teachers

My project is the creation of a toolkit to train educators to understand bias, address racism, and build anti-racist and equitable school cultures.

2018Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Education, Teaching, Learning

Church Green Team Development

Church Green Team Development will be a capacity building effort focused on three congregations in L.A. County who serve marginalized populations.

Campaigning for Better Internet Access for The Poor Black Majority

For years the Black majority in South Africa have faced the greatest barriers to internet access, both in terms of language and cost.

2019Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Access, Data, Technology

BlackSeed

BlackSeed, a community-based consulting and certification group focused on cannabis justice.

Black Women Disrupt the Web

COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the world. Artists, Black women in particular, have been hit a severe blow, as many creative projects including film shoots have been cancelled or postponed.

2019Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Arts & Culture, Narrative, Women

Arco Music-Theater Project

The aim is to lift up the hidden role of black and brown women in the making of contemporary Africa.

2018Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Performing Arts, Women, Narrative

Anwara Sistahs Directory (ASD)

In the last 20 years of organizing there has been clear signs that there is a need for organizers, parents and even those in leadership to address the trauma they have experienced in their lives.

2020Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityAugust 8, 2024Healing, Social Movements, Women

Fellows’ Projects