Our Values + Vision

Our Values

Unity: Our shared experiences bring us closer together, and that togetherness helps us get freer faster.

Kujichagulia: As the Kwanzaa principle suggests, we have a responsibility to define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

Pleasure: It’s how we “reclaim our whole, happy, and satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusions, and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy” (Pleasure Activism).

Truth: Honesty is the basis for trust, and trust is non-negotiable when it comes to connecting and learning.

Respect: That goes for all forms of life—humans, animals, and the environment.

Passion: It makes the work sustainable.

Excellence: It’s the only way.

Our Vision

We envision black communities restoring the level of togetherness that existed before and during the Civil Rights Movement, public schools offering Gullah Geechee classes, more intergenerational learning spaces, black children traveling internationally before adulthood, elders feeling valued and supported, art being seen as a viable career option within the black community, and people having the necessary village of support to best care for themselves and each other.

Indigo Alliance 2022 Re-Editioning Black + Native Histories Reunion in Deer Isle, Maine