A Long Walk Home

@ALongWalkHome

Founded in 2003, A Long Walk Home is a non-profit that uses art to educate, engage, and empower young people to end violence against girls and women.

Chicago, IL
alongwalkhome.org
Joined March 2010
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  1. May 3

    We are so excited to be a featured story in Chicago’s very own by on how ‘Surviving R Kelly’ brought conversations of Black girls into the mainstream conversation of sexual violence, and our ways of moving forward.

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  2. Apr 30

    On the last day of , we are so excited to premiere our video from "Keeping Black Girls at the Center of : A Town Hall with @ ." Thank you to all Black women and girls leading us to freedom to end sexual violence.

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  3. Apr 22

    Happiest of birthdays to our sheroe and radical fire starter, . Thank you for your enduring commitment to justice for Black women and girls, and through your leadership we are all challenged and better because of you.

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  4. Apr 17

    dream guides us, challenges us, and helps us reimagine a world where Black girls can be free. beyond well deserved, thank you.

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  5. Apr 15

    “Young people are hearing us respond to R Kelly. When we as adults discredit survivors, the young people will hear us and the cycle of silencing and turning the eye from Black girls will continue”

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  6. Apr 15

    asks how the case of R Kelly and the coverage has changed him. “As a music lover, what has hurt the most is that music was the tool to lure the women in. How music can change your life and also ruin someone’s life.”

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  7. Apr 15

    asked how to “deprogram” Black girls from the false narrative of Black girls treated as adults. “Preserving their girlhood by understanding that playing and imagining is radical and self-care.”

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  8. Apr 15

    Art Intervention: for has begun. “Now that we are here, centering and valuing black girls leadership... how do we continue this?”

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  9. Apr 11

    COME THRU: Monday April 15 for for a panel, Art Intervention: on the 25 years of art, activism, and journalism working in tandem to seek justice for survivors of R Kelly's abuse with and Nia Scott moderated by

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  10. Apr 8

    Black Girls Go International! Girl/Friends have made it to Kathmandu, Nepal to speak at CREA Conference, an international girls conference, on consent & ending sexual violence!

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    Mar 30

    1pm CST!!! and I are the keynote speakers at Dominican University's Women & Gender Conference - Gender Violence, Unity, and Resistance (River Forest, IL).

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  12. Mar 26

    A testament to the challenges Black women and girls face when sharing their stories as survivors. Girl/Friend, Aliyah Young, featured in the sharing her story as a survivor coupled with its complications of being a Black activist in Chicago

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  13. Mar 22

    And finally, at Keeping Black Girls at the center of with Tarana Burke back in October, the whole team in our shirts. Black girls & women, we are the movement, and we will not stop fighting until we are free.

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  14. Mar 22

    staff in their shirts!!!

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  15. Mar 22

    The cutest, , her son, and in their

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  16. Retweeted
    Mar 22

    Wearing our Got Consent shirts from our friends at in solitary with Black girls and women survivors of sexual violence. Post your own photo to join the justice-seeking, survivor-centered takeover.

    A group of 10 students and staff at Penn wearing black shirts that say "Got Consent?" on them in front of a banner that says "Penn Violence Prevention."
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    Mar 22

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  18. Mar 22

    Black girls matter, period.

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  19. Mar 22

    Throwback to our SOARS performance at Oak Park River Forest High School with Linda Carlson, the incredible self-defense teacher.

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  20. Mar 22

    with &

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