
NATIONAL ACTION: Cancel the Concert
We are calling on our fellow Black sisters, our allies, comrades, and partners, across the nation to support Black women and girls by taking action now to cancel the R Kelly concert at the Highline Ballroom and the appearance at FREQ Club in New York City on Saturday January 27th. 1. Flood the Highline Ballroom with calls Main number: (212) 414 – 5994 Call Press Manager Jeff Mann (212) 997 – 4555 Email: Jeffmann@highlineballroom.com Tweet @HLBallroom 2. Tweet at the support


ACTION TOOLKIT: Shut It Down! Black Women Protest and Boycott R. Kelly Concert
At age 50, R. Kelly has sold millions of records, and remains one of the dominant voices in R&B music. Kelly also “has a well-documented, twenty-five-year history” of victimizing women and underage girls. Between 1996 and 2002, he was subject to four publicly filed lawsuits - three by teenage girls - and in 2002, he was indicted for making child pornography, stemming from a video that prosecutors said showed of him having sex with and urinating into the mouth of a 14-year-old


#BWBCosbyWatch: Not Holding Abusive Black Men Accountable Will Not End Racism
Recently Bill Cosby made his first public appearance in over two years during an interview with SiriusXM, which conspicuously coincided with the beginning of the jury selection process for his trial set for June 5th. Allegations of sexual assault, lodged against Cosby by over 60 women, first publicly circulated in 2014. Cosby has since vehemently denied these allegations, despite admitting to offering Quaaludes to women prior to engaging in sexual relations with them. The sol

PRESS RELEASE: Black Women Converge at Atlanta HBCU to Resist Trump Cuts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Farah Tanis, 646-263-1050 | Ftanis@blueprintny.org Ericka Dixon, 917-685-9687 | Ericka@blueprintny.org Black Women Converge at Atlanta HBCU to Resist Trump Cuts April 29 - 30, 2017 Spelman College - Black Women’s Blueprint and the Women’s Research and Resource Center will convene the Words of Fire Conference with a focus on Gender, Power and a Black Feminist Call for Social Justice. More than 1200 grassroots activists, artists and academics of


Girls Drop in Hours Opening at Black Women's Blueprint
Girls Create Girls Create Drop In Program is a safe place where teenage girls can be themselves after a long day of school. It is an opportunity to bond and fellowship with other young ladies within an empowering environment. The program provides youth development opportunities that will help the girls to learn and grow within a positive place. Girls Create Drop In Program is an wonderful experience where teenage girls can participate in a fun, educational, and safe activitie