Afroresistance Inc.

Overview

Afroresistance Inc. is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Bronx, New York, dedicated to promoting social justice and human rights across the Americas. Founded from the Latin American and Caribbean Community Center, it evolved to focus on issues affecting Black communities, particularly those of Latin American and Caribbean descent.

Mission and Principles

The mission of Afroresistance is centered on educating and organizing for human rights, democracy, and racial justice throughout the Americas. Its work emphasizes the lived experiences of subjugated knowledge of Black Women and Girls. Core principles include:

• Black Unity in the Americas: Unifying Black people across the region to co-design a political agenda grounded in gender, racial, reproductive, and economic justice.
• Gender Analysis: Centering Black Trans Women and Girls to address systemic impacts across all intersections.
• Racial Justice: Focusing on the liberation of Black people due to historical systemic oppression.
• Reproductive Justice: Advocating for reproductive rights as a human right, a framework developed by Black women.
• Migration: Honoring Black people's movement regardless of status, with an internationalist perspective.
• Economic Justice: Grounding economic discussions in equity of wealth to address historical inequalities.

Core Work

Afroresistance operates through three primary focus areas:

1. Advocacy: Providing analysis, data, and reports centered on Black Women and Girls from Latin America and the Caribbean.
2. International Solidarity: Building an international movement for social justice and human rights.
3. Capacity Building: Delivering popular human rights education focused on race, gender, and immigration to empower people of African descent.

Impact and Engagement

By engaging Black women and girls as leaders in movements for true liberation and equality, Afroresistance aims to create systemic change. Its work extends across the Americas, fostering collective efforts to address local and global issues.