Cultural Reclamation through Reparations ~ Cultural Revival Through Community

The Black Banjo Reclamation Project is a vehicle to return instruments of African origin to the descendants of their original makers. The Black Banjo Reclamation Project is a vehicle to return instruments of African origin to the descendants of their original makers. Our theory of change is tied directly to re-appropriating our own culture by receiving banjos in the form of reparations and over time, gaining skills that will advance individuals and communities for generations to come. This includes ancestral survival and land based skills including fostering the trade of instrument building and repair. We are pursuing ancestral healing and envision a world where the act of remembering gives us the power to shape our world.

Collectively Creating a Just Food & Land Revolution

The National Black Food and Justice Alliance represents hundreds of Black urban and rural farmers, organizers, and land stewards based nationwide working together towards an intergenerational, urban/rural movement to map, assess, train and deepen the organizing, institution building and advocacy work protecting Black land and work towards food sovereignty. Together, we are designing, building and protecting the nourishing, safe and liberatory spaces our communities need and absolutely deserve.

Community Land Conservancy (CLC) is a people of color-led land conservancy that acquires land for parks in historically underserved communities — so that community voices are heard and centered in land use decision-making. Access to nature is vital for health, well-being, and social cohesion. This important issue is often overlooked in discussions about equitable access to affordable housing, particularly for historically underserved communities and communities of color, where many live in fear of displacement. Community Land Conservancy believes that a conservancy of, by, and for people of color would have the trust, expertise, and capacity to work effectively and sensitively with communities of color to transform land use planning, policy and practice; and to help ensure:

Building community through farming, healing community through relationships 

A thriving urban farm and community farming program that values community, self-sufficiency, food empowerment, social justice, and education. Nurturing Roots brings the community together by providing volunteering opportunities, hosting various events, and partnering with local restaurants. Creating community through gardening, they focus on sharing the truth about systematic oppression, with an emphasis on food and environmental justice. Their farm is also about access, education, and re-engaging folks with our environment. 

Earthseed uses arts-based experiential learning to redefine identity in accordance with personal and cultural beliefs and not solely in opposition to the systems of oppression. Our programming centers Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities as well as those who disrupt pervasive systems on behalf of co-liberation. We offer professional and personal development workshops, theatre classes, wilderness travel workshops, affordable space rental, pottery wheel rental, and more at our Beacon Hill Storefront in Seattle. 

The Jefferson County Anti-Racist Fund is a mutual aid organization founded in 2019 by an Indigenous woman with the goal of giving support to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in Jefferson County, Washington. JCARF runs a large, free CSA with veggies, fruits, meat, dairy, bread and flowers for local BIPOC. Additionally they fund individual BIPOC needs such as: access to wellness treatments or therapies, emergency Situations, transportation, access to healing or traditional foods, access to land and more. 

Woodbridge Farm is a 24-acre farm located along a salmon stream in the fertile Chimacum Valley of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Woodbridge was established in 2018 by Peter Mustin, a Black farmer with a vision to cultivate community while caring for the soil, growing good food and flowers, and providing space for Black, Indigenous, and people of color to experience the life-affirming bounty nature provides. Working with farmer partner Cameron Jones, Woodbridge Farm is a project of love and restoration, honoring Peter’s family roots and lifelong love of farming, plants and beauty. 

Disrupt. Nourish. Heal. 

Yasuke Commons is a community of farmers, holistic practitioners, and product makers, igniting system change through access to healthy foods, regenerative agriculture and wellness education to historically under-represented communities. Yasuke Commons is bridging the gap of affordability and accessibility for organic produce, natural foods, nutrition, education and wellness services by creating a food & wellness cooperative for low income, working poor, BIPOC communities. 

Holistic Resistance has been bringing practice and action together in communities across the country through workshops, song circles, youth mentorship, and custom programming with facilitators, parents, teachers, and businesses. With an emphasis on close relationship, they aim to build lifelong connections that support our everyday anti-racism. Holistic Resistance reimagines a world where we see each other’s humanity, repair when we cause harm, and build skills for long-term connection. Learn more about some of the projects they are building: Grief to Action for BIPOC, Chronic Undertouch for Black Youth, and Sheltering Black.