Black Positive People : BLM's Alicia Garza Launches Census Project To Mobilize Black Political Power

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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BLM's Alicia Garza Launches Census Project To Mobilize Black Political Power


Taryn Finley
HuffPost

... Garza on Monday announced the launch of Black Futures Lab, which promises to “develop strategies that help Black people imagine the political, social and economic alternatives needed at the local, state, and federal level, while also building the political power needed to implement those alternatives.” Their first initiative is the Black Census Project, which the group said is the first large survey focusing on black lives in America in more than 150 years.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-lives-matter-founder-launches-192447630.html

Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza is launching Black Futures Lab with a census project to explore black lives in America. (Sam Morris via Getty Images)

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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WHO WE ARE
The Black Futures Lab transforms Black communities into constituencies that change the way power operates—locally, statewide and nationally ...

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Black Census
It's been 153 years since more than 200,000 Black people were asked to talk about what's important to us. This is our time…take the Black Census today!

The Black Census Project is the first step in transforming Black communities into constituencies that build power in cities and states. We're talking to 200,000 Black people from diverse communities across the country because we want to know what you care about and we want to hear your dreams ...

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