Organizations

The Web site was launched in 2000 as a nonprofit educational venture promoting awareness of African Heritage in Classical Music. [...] Here you will meet 52 composers, conductors and instrumental performers - Africans, African Americans and Afro-Europeans. Many are alive today, but one lived 500 years ago! These artists are unknown to most of us, yet are so numerous this site can present only a fraction of them. They have made enduring contributions to Classical Music.

Blackbookstore.com was created to be a resource for independent Black authors. A place where their work can be celebrated, and their stories shared among the generations.

We bring Black books to your doorstep in a business exchange that supports Black authors as literary entrepreneurs. We provide the distribution; they provide the books. We’re one of the largest sellers of Black titles, and growing, as we work with Black authors to showcase and sell their books.

Founded in 1978, Black Classic Press is devoted to publishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. We specialize in republishing works that are out of print and quite often out of memory. We began publishing because we wanted to extend the memory of what we believe are important books that have helped in meaningful ways to shape the Black diasporic experience and our understanding of the world.

Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. We are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1915 to 1979 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context.

RQ [Root Quarterly] is one part magazine, one part collaborative art project, and one part social experiment.

We’ll offer you insightful and provocative essays, profiles of regional makers and artists, national cultural criticism, fiction, poetry, and carefully-curated recommendations for getting the most out of life in our city and region—all in a beautifully designed and printed magazine you can hold in your hands and settle down with on a Sunday afternoon, or argue over at Thursday night happy hour.

The Sphinx Organization is a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Sphinx’s four program areas – Education & Access, Artist Development, Performing Artists, and Arts Leadership – form a pipeline that develops and supports diversity and inclusion in classical music at every level: music education, artists performing on stage, the repertoire and programing being performed, the communities represented in audiences, and the artistic and administrative leadership within the field.

Our mission is to build a vibrant and diverse intellectual culture in Australia and around the world, through innovative, entertaining, and accessible events. Led by Professional Communicator, Director and Producer, Suzi Jamil, we are a team with an indomitable spirit and are active advocates for free speech, even-handed debate and are deeply passionate about raising rational discourse both nationally and globally. We live and breathe ideas. We have worked with prominent talent, including Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dr Jane Goodall, Steve Wozniak, Professor Richard Dawkins and many more, reaching over 145,000 attendees in 10 cities and 90 shows.

Road Home Research & Analysis (RHRA) is a research nonprofit focused on ideas, policies, and programs that can improve the life outcomes of disadvantaged youth. We work with a diverse range of partners — academic institutions, community groups, foundations, and businesses — to develop research projects that point to real solutions. RHRA is driven by a desire to increase opportunities and remove barriers to raising kids in a healthy and safe environment.

Speak for Ourselves spotlights writers and content creators who challenge the dominant narratives imposed on people of colour by media elites. We welcome individuals from across the political spectrum who dare to step outside of conventional ideological boundaries to offer authentic and informed perspectives on issues such as prosperity, safety, education, opportunity, identity, and much more..

Founded in 2010 as a voice for freedom in Canada's courtrooms, the mission of the Justice Centre is to defend the constitutional freedoms of Canadians through litigation and education. We fight for Canada to become and remain a free society, where the equality of all Canadians and their individual freedoms are celebrated and respected.

The AMERICAN KING FOUNDATION is a 501 c 3 non-profit organization that was founded by Angela Stanton-King. A.K.F. focuses on criminal justice reform, re-entry, and reuniting American Families throughout the United States of America that have been affected by the laws of mass incarceration. A.K.F. provides returning citizens and their families with a pathway to justice, economic stability, and relational wellness.

Our Mission: To improve the quality of life for people in need by empowering them to become more self-sufficient through providing short-term assistance, financial counseling, and employment development. Our Vision: To address the economic and social needs of our communities and helping to create a world where individuals and families are not destroyed due to temporary financial hardships.

BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, is a nationally-recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, based in Los Angeles, founded by Jesse Lee Peterson, dedicated to Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man. Since 1990, we’ve offered counseling for people dealing with personal, relationship and family issues, helping them to overcome anger through forgiveness.

We are the only agency in NYC that seamlessly provides access to therapeutic empowerment services and youth development all under one roof.

Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change work includes changing the dynamic of trauma within our communities, reducing recidivism, and building strong families and organizations. We take our responsibility head-on by aggressively linking our communities to a wide range of programs and resources.

Equal Opportunity Ventures invests in early-stage businesses that increase opportunity in America. We support entrepreneurs in creating commercially successful companies that advance economic mobility.

We believe that market forces can power great ideas to drastically expand economic opportunity. Guided by the best evidence and leading research on what drives economic mobility, we invest in people and ideas that can succeed in and transform those markets.

VISION: To help individuals in the Black community grow and prosper in mind, body and Spirit by eliminating disproportional injustices that hinder Black advancement. MISSION: Our mission is to protect black life from conception to death by confronting injustice and deconstructing barriers inside and outside the black community through a national platform of training, networked resources, community organizing and faith building.

The Federation of Black Cowboys was created in 1994 by a group of diverse people looking to share and promote knowledge of the Black West. Seeking to create greater understanding of African American culture and heritage, we endeavor to provide educational opportunities for the young public of New York. We are a non-profit, tax-exempt 501-C3 organization.

The Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club evolved from a century-long tradition of Urban Black Cowboys in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ and one man’s commitment to provide horsemanship experience in the inner-city.

The world is missing out on a great deal of innovative companies by not investing more heavily in women and diverse entrepreneurs. Harlem Capital is addressing the disparity ourselves rather than waiting for other Venture Capital firms to come around. Communities of color are massive exporters of cultural and economic value, thus the more of us we have on the investor side of the table, the more we can proactively ensure more women and founders of color build equity in the same ecosystem we’re helping to build. We’re changing the face of entrepreneurship and create generational wealth for people of color and women.

The 1854 Cycling Company is a premium bicycle & cycling apparel brand founded to create 21st century, living wage employment for the formerly incarcerated. [...] Today, our fight is against the revolving door of the criminal justice system where approximately 76.6% of all released prisoners will be rearrested within 5 years of their release. Such recidivism often contributes to crime, mass incarceration, homelessness, and generational poverty.

The City of Hope Outreach exists to advocate for others by opening holistic centers in Central Arkansas's under-resourced areas. Here, we influence change through unique community engagement and philanthropic support. Imagine men, women, and children attending a place where they live and develop every aspect of the self. Imagine a place in which CoHO becomes the center of gravity for holistic renewal for the good of the community, our city, and county.

We work to address the structural inequalities embedded in the industrialized food system:

• The systemic exploitation of food system workers (especially undocumented farm and kitchen workers)

• The lack of access to fresh, nutritious food in low-income communities of color

• Our culture’s over-reliance on packaged, processed food that is killing our bodies and our environment

Project H.O.O.D.’s programming is designed to equip youth, adults, and families with the resources, skills, tools and experiences that are needed to be successful, healthy, and upwardly mobile members of society. We seek to empower, not enable. We seek to equip, not excuse. We seek to inform, not ignore. Project H.O.O.D.’s goal is to be at the forefront of innovation and transformation on the South Side of Chicago and specifically within the Englewood and Woodlawn communities.