Recommended Organizations
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is a scholarly organization that aims to foster dialogue about researching, writing, and teaching black thought and culture.
https://aaregistry.org
A 501 (c) 3 non-profit, with the most comprehensive on-line database resource of African American heritage in the world.
https://au.int/en/diaspora-division
The Diaspora Division is under the Directorate office of the Department. It takes directives and instructions from the Directorate office. The African Diaspora refers to the communities throughout the world that are descended from the historic movement of peoples from Africa; predominantly from the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, among other areas around the globe.
https://www.blackpast.org
BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet.
https://blackallianceforpeace.com
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace positions of the radical black movement. Through educational activities, organizing and movement support, organizations and individuals in the Alliance will work to oppose both militarized domestic state repression, and the policies of de-stabilization, subversion and the permanent war agenda of the U.S. state globally.
https://blacksocialists.us
Founded in 2018, Black Socialists in America (BSA) is a coalition of anticapitalist, internationalist Black Americans who believe that the workers should control the means of production in a democratic and decentralized fashion (see here).
The Black Youth Project is the preeminent research body for survey and respondent data concerning Black Americans ages 18-30. We also feature high quality and engaging content which highlights the diversity of this generation. We work closely with our activist organization, BYP 100, to bring light to efforts to better our communities through direct engagement.
http://www.abpsi.org/
The Association of Black Psychologists was founded in San Francisco in 1968 by a number of Black Psychologists from across the country. They united to actively address the serious problems facing Black Psychologists and the larger Black community. Guided by the principle of self determination, these psychologists set about building an institution through which they could address the long neglected needs of Black professionals. Their goal was to have a positive impact upon the mental health of the national Black community by means of planning, programs, services, training, and advocacy.
https://www.byp100.org
Founded in 2013, BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100) is a member-based organization of Black youth activists creating justice and freedom for all Black people. BYP100 was, at one point, just a hashtag for the 2013 “Beyond November Movement Convening” developed through the vision and leadership of Cathy Cohen.
https://www.panafricanthought.com
The Centre is a member-based policy think tank that works to create fairer more equal societies in which people of African descent are free to realize their human potential.
https://ibw21.org
A resource center and engine for capacity-building and empowerment of Black organizations and communities, utilizing cooperative and collaborative methods and strategies.
https://www.ncobraonline.org
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) is the premiere mass-based coalition of organizations and individuals organized for the sole purpose of obtaining reparations for African descendants in the United States.
https://panafricancongress.org
The Pan African Congress is a historic gathering of the Global African Family. From the 1st Pan African Congress in London in 1900 to the 7th in Kampala, Uganda in 1994, the PAC has remained a forum through which people of African descent have articulated key agendas for the liberation of Africa and the assertion of the dignity of the African personhood. The 8th Congress took place in Ghana, during March 4-7th, 2015. The congress involved delegations from all parts of the Pan African world.
https://pacapower.org
Pan-African Community Action (PACA) is part of a historic and global movement for Pan-Africanism, or the liberation and unification of Africa, and of African people on the continent and in the diaspora, under the economic system of scientific socialism. As part of the Pan-African movement, PACA is a grassroots group of African/Black people organizing for community-based power.
https://t.co/vBCJkJzoeS?amp=1
Black Socialist Grassroot organization serving the people of Oakland.
https://m4bl.org
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) formed in December of 2014, was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement wide strategy. Under the fundamental idea that we can achieve more together than we can separately.
https://www.naacpldf.org
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice.
https://racism.org
Race, Racism And The Law considers race, racism and racial distinctions in the law. It examines the role of domestic and international law in promoting and/or alleviating racism. This website makes law review scholarship (and related material) more accessible to community activists, students, and non-legal faculty.