We love Birmingham. We are committed to supporting our black community, black businesses and black entrepreneurs, and standing together against racism. We are sharing a few Birmingham-based resources that elevate black voices in our city.
Journey Through Black History at These Key Places in Birmingham
Bham Now has written so many helpful articles like this one for those of us who are seeking to help and support our black friends.
I Create Birmingham : Blog Series on the Create Birmingham Website
Create Birmingham plays a unique role in growing the creative sector, including performing arts, visual arts and crafts, culture and heritage, media and film, design, and culinary arts. The “I Create Birmingham” blog series started months ago but we love reading about the various creators in Birmingham. Read these posts and support black artists and creators in Birmingham!
10 Insightful Quotes from Southern Black Women
Like Style Blueprint said, “much of the journey starts with active listening.” Active listening can be the beginning of change! We were inspired by this list of insightful quotes from southern black women.
Support 17 Black-owned Birmingham Retail Shops + Creative Services NOW
Let’s be intentional about where we spend our money right now. A primary way to support the black community is to spend money at black-owned businesses. Thank you Bham Now for sharing this article!
And here are some organizations truly making a difference for POC in Birmingham and beyond:
Be Bhm
Be Bhm is a 20-week program designed to empower Black entrepreneurs with the business knowledge, encouragement, social networks and resources needed to be competitive in Birmingham’s changing and expanding marketplace.
blkLSTed
Be Bhm’s newest initiative is blkLSTed– a community building initiative and economic empowerment strategy for Birmingham that utilizes an open-source, collaborative, living and unapologetic entrepreneurial directory for Black-owned, Black-led businesses and organizations in Birmingham.
Woke Vote
Woke Vote believes organizing for turnout is most effective when you execute a series of tactics, in a targeted universe, with a consistent presence. Since their inception Woke Vote has drastically increased the percentage rate of turnout (in some targets by more than 45% and in all of targeted communities by at least 5%).
Urban Impact
Urban Impact‘s mission is to preserve the physical structure of the 4th Avenue Historical Business District, the only intact African-American Business District in the State of Alabama.
Jefferson County Memorial Project
The mission of JCMP is to memorialize victims of racial terror violence and expand our county’s understanding of past and present issues of racial injustice. JCMP is currently composed of over 40 community partners and a multi-racial, multi-faith, multi-sector, and multi-generational group of committed volunteers.
In conclusion, we hope these resources are just a starting point for you. We hope you will research resources on anti-racism, read more, listen more, support social justice organizations and also buy from black brands and businesses. We will seek out ways to continually amplify black voices.