ABOUT

Established on the first day of Black History Month in 2021, The Black Knowledge Coalition (BKC) is a collective of Black women and genderqueer organizers dedicated to political education as the first step toward organization. We are members of and in relationship with well-established African + Black liberation organizations who have been organizing displaced Africans in the Americas for decades. BKC is not a political party, nor is it a base-building organization that runs campaigns designed to advance the struggle toward a fully organized working class. We are a coalition of organizers who believe in the power of accessible, grounded, and meaningful political education guided by archival history and storytelling to empower our people to become formally organized.

Our work is centered around the task of liberating resources and information about our people and our struggle— that are kept behind paywalls and bachelor’s degrees— and making them accessible to everyone. Black Knowledge Coalition is a place for Black women or genderqueer organizers who are passionate about mass political education as a means to empower revolutionary organizing.

We believe political education is only as meaningful as the action it inspires. We are battling the propaganda machine at the heart of empire, which means our people are facing intricate cobwebs of indoctrination which can only be swept away by meaningful political education. By taking the time to meet our people where they are and use the power of our history and stories to contextualize our individual place in the behemoth of white supremacist imperialism, BKC believes we can point more Black folk toward organization.