• “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.”

    “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.”

    bell hooks
  • “Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. “

    “Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. “

    Audre Lorde
  • “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes.”

    “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes.”

    Zora Neale Hurston

The Black Girl Project Screening/Fundraiser

Friday, August 27th, 7PM @ The Spike Lee Screening Room on the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University!

What We Do

We use traditional and new media to illuminate the diversity of Black women's lives across the globe. Our work looks at areas often neglected when it comes to Black women because we do not subscribe to the overused archetypes of "victim" or "asexual saint". We tell our stories our way.

Why We Do It

It's important for all people to own their own stories because as the proverb goes "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter." Until Black women reclaim and tell their own stories, we will always be positioned as the "other" or less than ideal.