South L.A. based Black #feminist #humanist gender justice program for Black girls and young women of color #Standing4BlackGirls coalition #LGBTQ #reprojustice
Los Angeles, CA
Joined May 2015
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Congrats to our 2026 Lorraine Hansberry Humanist Scholarship awardees who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in gender and racial justice organizing, peer education, LGBTQallyship and mentorship and Black feminist advocacy! Thanks to @blackskeptics @FFRF & Harrington Family
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This week, ten men from the South LA Hoover Street Gang were arrested in a "massive human trafficking sweep" whose victims were primarily young Black women who had been groomed from foster care, the population with the highest risk for CSEC victimization ktla.com/news/local-news/10-…
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On Jan 31st @ Lore Bookstore, I'll be debuting my short narrative film "Alpha Centauri", which focuses on the disproportionate impact of trafficking and grooming on Black girls, through the lens of a foster care teen who aspires to be an aerospace engineer events.humanitix.com/alpha-c…
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#CriticalMissing 14-year-old Trinity Davis (5’3 150lbs). Last seen in the Woodlawn area wearing a pink sweatshirt, sweatpants, pink Crocs, and carrying a tan in color book bag. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 410-887-1340. #HelpLocate #BCoPD
Today #Standing4BlackGirls benefit concert kicks off in partnership with Berklee College of Music's Jazz & Gender Justice Institute featuring amazing Black, BIPOC women and queer multi-genre artists, raising awareness about our work! Livestream and tix bit.ly/40YSsTr
We’re excited to announce that we will be in the Boston area this weekend for a benefit concert launched on our behalf in partnership with Berklee College of Music’s Jazz & Gender Justice Institute, featuring Debo Ray and these incredible musicians!
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WLP 11th grade writer Ama Boateng: " #Project2025 intentionally targets marginalized groups, hoping to silence them in the political arena. This is not something I can stand by and watch happen"
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Thousands marching tonight in NYC shutting down 3rd Ave at the @WOLPalestine action to protest Netanyahu’s scheduled speech at the UN and demand Eric Adams resign as mayor 🇵🇸 – at Manhattan, NY
WLP alum and #Standing4BlackGirls leader Ashantee Polk on why Black women and girls have some of the highest rates of domestic and sexual violence and criminalization and what we're doing about it
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#Fredericksburg, #Virginia: 15y/o Cristian Bryant has been #Missing since Sept. 5. He was last seen in the Riverside Manor Complex.
Have you seen Cristian? #CristianBryant
Challenging toxic backlash against LGBTQ+ communities, we were proud to participate in the City of Huntington Park's first Pride fair last June. We were recently made aware that signs for a queer student group were ripped off the wall at one of our South L.A. partner schools
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Don't wait – check your state's voter registration deadline today and make sure you're registered and ready to vote. And then share this with your friends and family so everyone's ready to vote early or by Election Day. VoteSaveAmerica.com/Obama
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Highly recommend .@joancbaez biopic "I Am A Noise", on Baez's career as a pioneering Latina civil rights activist-musician, artist and truth teller, fighting racism, sexism and trauma in the white-dominated folk rock world #HispanicHeritageMonth
youtu.be/dhcV1gEat_c?si=1QEf… @YouTube
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Please participate in @UntilFreedom's 10-city National Day of Mourning for #SonyaMassey — killed by a sheriff's deputy in her Springfield, Illinois, home. This daughter, mother, friend, and so much more deserves our attention.🙏🏿
🎥: IG/Roland Martin
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Personnel files reveal troubling details about Sean Grayson's work history before he fatally shot Sonya Massey. Grayson admitted to past alcohol abuse and faced multiple complaints and disciplinary actions. How did he get hired in Sangamon County, IL? nbcnews.com/news/records-det…
SAT: Our next Black feminist book club features Vanessa Lewis' "Reclaiming Ugly" & Mikki Kendall's "Hood Feminism" on affirming Black queer, neurodivergent communities, identities and organizing against white supremacist misogynoirist erasure
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Check out our upcoming events and actions, we'll be tabling at this weekend's Stoneview Nature Center "Pride Outside" event & going to @LACity Hall next week to demand justice for Black women and girls and Black LGBTQIA+ DV and sexual violence survivors womensleadershipla.org
Congrats to UCLA-bound King-Drew HS alumnus WLP student leader and peer educator Vanessa Chavarin, who will be receiving one of our Lorraine Hansberry Humanist scholarship awards this week!
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If you want to understand why the FBI needs to investigate Mitrice Richardson's case, this podcast has some of the reasons.
#justiceformitricerichardson
#endpolicecorruption
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Sat 5/11 pre-Mother's Day #Standing4BlackGirls Missing & Murdered pop-up rally and guerilla theater action at City Council District 8, which has the largest population of Black folks in L.A. yet no youth centers or accessible safe spaces for Black women and girl DV victims