Abolition Coalition of Skokie: The Mission of the Abolition Coalition is to abolish anti-Blackness and white supremacy that saturate the essential systems of well being and wealth in the Skokie community. Members uplift those who are most marginalized by collaborating with other members of the community to dismantle systemic barriers that permeate housing, healthcare, education, economics, policing, and government policies. [Facebook]
Appleseed Center for Fair Courts: Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts advocates for a legal system that is equitable, accessible, and fair to all people; efficient so justice is not delayed; and effective in seeking solutions to social injustices. Their work focuses on improving civil and criminal court processes for people with and without representation and promoting judicial excellence. [Website] [IG]
Asian Americans Advancing Justice: Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago builds power through collective advocacy and organizing to achieve racial equity. [Website]
Black Lives Matter Chicago: An independent organization, BLM Chicago advocates for Black liberation, abolition, defunding the police, and investing in what the hood needs. [IG]
Black Lives Matter NWI-Gary: Black-led, multiracial, inter-generational organization rooted in Gary, active in Northwest Indiana region. [IG]
BYP100: BYP100 is a National, member-based organization of Black 18-35 year old activists and organizers, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. They do this through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and political education using a Black queer feminist lens. [Website] [IG]
The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR): The Chicago Alliance is a branch of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a mass defense organization that defends the rights of Black people and all oppressed peoples to unite, organize and fight for freedom, justice and equality. CAARPR advocates for community control of the Chicago Police Department and to free incarcerated survivors of police torture. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Association of Black Social Workers, Inc. (CABSW): The Chicago Association of Black Social Workers, Inc. (CABSW) , composed of people of African ancestry, is committed to enhancing the quality of life and empowering people of African ancestry through advocacy, human services delivery, and research. Their mission is to work to create a world in which people of African ancestry will live free from racial domination, economic exploitation, and cultural oppression. In collaboration with national, international, and other appropriate groups, CABSW will continue to leverage its collective expertise to strategically develop the capacity of people of African ancestry to sustain and flourish. [Website] [IG]
Center for Racial and Gender Equity: CRGE works to build the power of the Black women most directly impacted by the intersections of violently racialized and gendered capitalism to advance a radical vision for liberation, through leadership development and political engagement. They run grassroots policy and electoral campaigns, engaging Black voters and building Black women’s leadership to advance a legislative agenda and candidates that explicitly support Black women’s liberation. [Website] [IG]
Community Renewal Society: Community Renewal Society informs and brings people of faith and congregations together, in partnership with communities, coalitions, interfaith organizations and civic leaders, to intentionally and decisively transform society toward greater social justice at the intersection of racism and poverty. [Website] [IG]
Communities United: Communities United (CU) is a survivor-led, intergenerational racial justice organization in Chicago. At the heart of CU’s organizing is the development of grassroots leadership to build collective power to achieve racial justice and transformative social change. With this approach, CU focuses on advancing affordable housing, health equity, education justice, youth investment, immigrant rights, and shifting resources from the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems into restorative justice alternatives. [Website] [IG]
Conrad Worrill Community Reparations Coalition: The Commission, created in 2020, is educating and organizing the community and elected officials toward creating, passing and funding reparation proposals for local reparation efforts. [Website] [IG]
Elgin In Solidarity with Black Lives Matter: ESBLM fights against white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy. [Website] [IG]
Equity and Transformation (e.a.t.): The mission of Equity and Transformation (EAT) is to build social and economic equity for Black workers engaged in the informal economy. [Website]
Evanston Fight for Black Lives: A youth abolitionist Evanston organization centering radical love and justice for Black people. [Website] [IG]
IL Workers in Action: IWA strives to build worker power in immigrant, Latinx, and black communities by working to advance systemic change that promotes racial and social justice and stabilizes low-income immigrants and communities of color. [Website] [IG]
The Justice Project: The March Continues: The Justice Project: The March Continues is a grassroots social justice movement to inspire the communities in the northern suburbs of Chicago and beyond to be welcoming, inclusive and diverse, and to offer them a framework for doing so. [Website]
Lighthouse Foundation Chicago: Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland is a Black LGBTQ+-led, multiracial social justice organization that advances justice for Black LGBTQ+ people across Chicagoland through empowerment, education, and entertainment. [Website] [IG]
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Chicago: Chicago chapter of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Black/New Afrikans organizing for human rights & self-determination. [IG]
Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation (OWMCL): Chicago chapter of a national network mobilizing white men to learn, grow and take action against white supremacy and patriarchy. [IG]
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Through community organizing, training, mobilizing, and action, SURJ Chicago provides people with tools needed to participate in a multiracial coalition for racial justice in solidarity with those most affected. [Facebook]
Skokie United: Skokie United is dedicated to being socially engaged with our community to build diverse, equitable, and inclusive, antiracist neighborhoods through dialogue, events, and relationships. [Website] [IG]
Undoing Our Erasure: Undoing Our Erasure is a transformative abolitionist based multimedia resource hub that is working to provide support, space, and awareness to voices and identities across the Black diaspora that have historically been neglected and/or ignored. What started as a podcast series highlighting young Black voices across all career fields, blossomed into a myriad of programs continuing the same work on a larger scale. Undoing Our Erasure is working to undo the centuries of dehumanization, destruction, and negligence that state entities have placed upon Black communities. [IG]
Workers Center for Racial Justice: A grassroots organization fighting for Black Liberation and for a fair and inclusive society that benefits all people. The Workers Center for Racial Justice organizes Black workers and their families to address the root causes of high rates of unemployment, low-wage work and over-criminalization impacting Black communities. [Website] [IG]
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