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A week has gone by since the 2018 midterms took place. State to state, Black women came up big winners. From sea to shining sea, Black women ran for office and in many cases, were the first Black women ever to win their elected office. Starting in the most liberal of states, Ayanna Pressley in Massachusetts is the first African-American congresswoman-elect in the state. Former educator and national teacher of the year, Jahana Hayes will be the first Black woman to represent

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

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

“For to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson – that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings…Black or not.” – Audre Lorde, Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Sister Outsider (1984) Black Women’s Blueprint unequivocally stands with the survivor who is going by Anna Chambers, as she speaks her truth and as she fights for justice and accountability from the two NYPD Police Officers

On May 18th, Black Women's Blueprint was honored to meet with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein to address the systematic and continued abuse of the human rights of Black women and girls in the United States. Black Women's Blueprint was among 14 organizations to brief the High Commissioner in his first meeting with US civil society in 2 years. Below is the written statement submitted to the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights. Blac

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

“What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?” ― Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism Black Women’s Blueprint stands in solidarity with Muslim and immigrant women and their families who have been impacted by the recently impose