Who is NNLB?
We are a collective of Black women leaders who have come together to address systemic problems in our community, We serve as an educational and organizing hub for the Black community to contribute to the progress of social movements in the United States. Our work emphasizes explicitly dismantling systemic issues that have long plagued the Black community.
How We Started
NNLB was formed in 2019 and was very reflective of the experience of Black women through the diaspora. We came together through mutual love, respect, and at times survival. The original co-founders of NNLB worked together at a “social justice” non-profit that we noticed did not lead with racial equity sense and was extremely abusive to their Black women employees. This led us to think about building a framework for an organization rooted in true equity and one that unapologetically centers the sociopolitical needs of Black people.
Our Mission
We serve as an educational and organizing hub for the Black community and contribute to the progress of social movements in the United States.
To move the baton of the movement’s work forward, we aim to educate on how Black bodies are affected by institutional and structural oppression and offer deliberate solutions to movement leaders working to dismantle such systems.
What Does NNLB Mean?
NNLB in itself stands for different things at different times and is not publicly shared. This approach is rooted in the revolutionary practice of naming ourselves and the acknowledgment that the work continues to be present and urgent whether we work under this pseudonym or others.
