Black Visions knows that to meet our vision and play a role in the creation of a Black movement ecosystem we want to exist in Minnesota and beyond, we must live into both our present and futures.

 

To do this we use the following 4 pillars to create change.

 

Developing & Nourishing Politicized Black Leaders

 

We base, build and offer a political home to our members in order to decentralize leadership and prepare our people to lead through an embodied understanding of a global Black experience.

 

Building Black Power

 

We organize our community alongside partners across issues impacting our lives to demand transformative systems change expanding what is possible for Black people’s conditions to survive and thrive.

 

Rooting into Transformative Relationships

 

We commit to being transformed by this work. Through self-awareness and individual/collective healing we cultivate liberatory relationships with ourselves, each other and the land.

 

Seeding Black Possibilities

 

We make Black life more possible through intergenerational spaces and building narratives that expand on Black experiences.

These four pillars rest firmly on a foundation of Black Queer Feminism and we train our members to view our organizing in this way. This means that all movement issues are

Black issues and we understand that our collective liberation is tied up in the intersections of racial capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy.