Organizations That Fight for Black Rights to Know

By Aswad Walker

Source: Black Press USA Wire

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When it comes to organizations, local or national, that look out for the interests of Black people, there are more than the usual suspects. Here is a partial list of organizations doing good work for Black people and Black communities that deserve your support and attention.

Food Production, Urban Gardening, Food Security

Houston Board of Food Security

IG: @houstonboardoffoodsecurity

IG: @thehappycamperhouston

Harlem River Farms

Website: Harlem River Farms

Phone: 713-269-7726

Fresh Houwse Grocery

Website: Fresh Houwse Grocery

IG: @freshhouwse

DeShaun Taylor (left), co-owner of Taylor Made Farms with her husband, Jazzyyy Taylor, seeks to end food apartheid. Credit: Courtesy DeShaun Taylor.

Taylor Made Farms

Website: http://www.taylormadefarmtx.com

“For me, food justice is about people knowing where their food comes from, being able to see a farmer who looks like them, and having equitable access to fresh food.” (DeShaun Taylor, co-owner of Taylor Made Farms with her husband, Jazzyyy Taylor).

Metallic Sunflower Foundation

Website: Metallic Sunflower Foundation

Community & Neighborhood Advocacy

Super Neighborhood Alliance

Website: Super Neighborhood Alliance

“Lots of Black-led Super Neighborhoods are doing good work. Don’t forget that Super Neighborhoods can also apply for City grants, and some even have 501 (c) (3) status.” (Ed Pettitt)

Social Justice

Pure Justice

Website: Pure Justice

Phone: 713-370-7490

Houston Justice Coalition

FB: Houston Justice Coalition

Protest Organize Participate (POP)

Website: POP (Protest Organize Participate)

Acres Homes Community Advocacy Group

Website: Acres Homes Community Advocacy Group Facebook Page

Radical Registrars

Website: Radical Registrars Instagram

For the Culture

SHAPE Community Center

Website: SHAPE Community Center

Phone: (713) 521-0641 and 713-521-0629

National Black United Front (NBUF)

·   Website: NBUF

NIA Cultural Center (Galveston)

Website: NIA Cultural Center

Address: 2217 Strand Street, Suite 101, Galveston, TX 77550

Black Maternal Health

Kay Matthews, founder, Shades of Blue Project. Credit: Shades of Blue Project.

Shades of Blue Project

Website: Shades of Blue Project

Our focus is on bridging the gaps that exist between maternal health and maternal mental health for folks of color. Our primary focus is on raising awareness and providing social support services. We’re not just doing it here in Houston. We work on a national and international level, as well.” (Kay Matthews, founder, Shades of Blue Project)

Economic Empowerment

Black Solidarity Economy Fund

Website: Black Solidarity Economy Fund

Heritage Hub Federal Credit Union

Website: Heritage Hub Federal Credit Union

Phone: 713-674-7400

Black United Fund of Texas (BUFTX)

Website: Black United Fund of Texas

The Arts

Community Artists Collective

Website: Community Artists Collective

Phone: 713-523-1616

Arts & Healing

Women Healing & Empowering Women (WHEW)

FB: Women Healing & Empowering Women

“Women Healing & Empowering Women (WHEW) is an arts healing organization addressing issues that are at the seed of all the challenges we face and ALL the isms and taboo conversations (i.e., sexual assault) by creating affinity safe spaces, bringing groups of different belief systems, socioeconomic backgrounds, professions, and generations, to have tough, layered, complex, awkward, and uncomfortable conversations. Like a pregnant mother forcing folks to get naked to birth the world we deserve and were meant to live in.” (Busi Peters)

The Black School

Website: The Black School

General Support Services

Collaborating Voices Foundation

Website: Collaborating Voices Foundation

Based on reporting by Houston Defender.

Originally published by Black Press USA Wire — https://defendernetwork.com/news/local-state/organizations-that-fight-for-black-rights-to-know/