Our intention: to reduce the number of young Black people who are living at the edge of fatality, and to interrupt the demonization and criminalization of their politics of survival.
young Black people from working-class neighborhoods who - prompted by their distrust and hatred of the police - routinely carry guns for protection;
who are often both authors and survivors of gun-related harms;
who have grown up amidst chronic community and police violence;
who are intensely criminalized and readily treated as social pariahs;
who are best positioned to analyze their conditions and co-create strategies to make their communities safer.
Our goal is to reduce the number of young Black and Latinx people who are living at the edge of fatality, and to interrupt the demonization and criminalization of their politics of survival.
young Black and Latinx people who are from poor and working-class neighborhoods;
who - prompted by their distrust and hatred of the police - routinely carry guns for protection;
who are often on both sides of the gun, both authors and survivors of gun-related harms;
who have grown up chronically exposed to community and police violence;
and who are treated as social pariahs and excluded from decision-making that directly affects their lives and communities.
