Organizations

Mentoring organization dedicated to improving opportunities for African American youth.

Atlanta, Georgia

Organization forging an alliance between the civil rights and labor movements.

Washington, DC

Civil rights organization advancing racial justice through legal advocacy.

Washington, DC

First museum funded and built by a major U.S. city to preserve African American heritage.

Philadelphia, PA

Social justice think tank addressing the intersections of race, gender, and class.

New York City, New York

Society dedicated to African American and African Diaspora genealogical research.

Washington, DC

The first historically Black Greek-letter sorority.

The first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African American men.

Professional association supporting Black faculty, staff, and administrators in higher education.

Washington, DC

Independent archive documenting African American and civil rights history.

New Orleans, LA

Initiative documenting and honoring African American burials at Washington's Congressional Cemetery.

Washington, DC

Organization dedicated to researching and preserving African American history.

Washington, DC

Professional association supporting African American-focused museums nationwide.

Washington, DC

Professional association supporting Black women historians and scholars.

Washington, DC

Public research library dedicated to African American history and culture, based in Atlanta.

Atlanta, GA

Archive preserving African American history in the Kansas City region.

Kansas City, MO

Organization preserving African American history in Washington State.

Seattle, WA

Nonprofit coordinating the broader Black Lives Matter movement against police violence and systemic racism.

The first African American labor union to receive a charter from the American Federation of Labor.

Chicago, Illinois

Museum dedicated to preserving the history of African American soldiers.

Houston, TX

State-supported museum showcasing African American art, history, and culture in California.

Los Angeles, CA

One of the world's largest museums dedicated to the African American experience.

Detroit, MI

Advocates for policies that improve children's well-being.

Washington, DC

Nation's largest online racial justice organization.

Oakland, California

An interracial civil rights organization known for nonviolent direct action and the Freedom Rides.

New York, New York

Caucus of Black members of the U.S. Congress advocating on behalf of Black Americans.

Washington, DC

Historically Black sorority known for its public service programs and civic engagement.

The nation's oldest independent museum dedicated to African American history and culture.

Chicago, IL

Nonprofit challenging racial injustice within the legal system.

Montgomery, Alabama

Federal commission preserving Gullah Geechee culture along the southeastern coast.

Charleston, SC

News and media outlet covering historically Black colleges and universities.

New York, NY

Social justice leadership training school that educated key civil rights movement organizers.

New Market, Tennessee

Museum built on a former slave trade port site telling the story of the African American journey.

Charleston, SC

Historically Black fraternity founded at Morgan State College in 1963.

Family organization dedicated to nurturing future African American leaders.

Washington, DC

Think tank focused on issues affecting Black communities.

Washington, DC

Historically Black fraternity founded at Indiana University.

Legal advocacy organization advancing equal justice.

Washington, DC

Coalition advocating civil and human rights legislation.

Washington, DC

Organization formed to coordinate the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Montgomery, Alabama

Howard University's premier repository for the study of the global Black experience.

Washington, DC

Museum exploring the history, art, and culture of the global African Diaspora.

San Francisco, CA

America's premier civil rights law firm, founded by Thurgood Marshall.

New York City, New York

Black nationalist religious movement blending Islamic terminology with distinct theology; its teachings and leadership have drawn sustained criticism for antisemitic and racially separatist rhetoric.

Chicago, Illinois

A leading civil rights organization founded by Rev. Al Sharpton, focused on public policy advocacy, criminal justice reform, and voting rights protection.

New York City, New York

Association promoting excellence in education for Black children.

Washington, DC

America's oldest and largest civil rights organization, dedicated to eliminating race-based discrimination and ensuring political, educational, social, and economic equality.

Baltimore, Maryland

Professional organization for Black journalists and media professionals.

College Park, Maryland

The nation's oldest and largest association of predominantly African American attorneys and judges.

Washington, DC

Organization representing African American state legislators nationwide.

Washington, DC

Leading national civil rights organization for Black LGBTQ+/same-gender-loving people.

Washington, DC

Professional organization supporting Black business leaders.

Chicago, Illinois

Museum located at the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, chronicling the American Civil Rights Movement.

Memphis, TN

National volunteer organization advancing the leadership and wellbeing of Black women.

New York City, New York

Organization promoting civic engagement and voter participation.

Washington, DC

Professional association for scholars and practitioners of Black Studies.

Atlanta, GA

A coalition of African American women's organizations dedicated to leadership development, advocacy, and community service for Black women and families.

Washington, D.C.

Professional association representing African American physicians.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Smithsonian museum dedicated to documenting African American life, history, and culture.

Washington, DC

Coalition advocating labor rights, civil rights, and economic justice.

Washington, DC

Trade association representing the Black Press.

Washington, DC

Umbrella council coordinating the nine historically Black Greek-letter fraternities and sororities known as the "Divine Nine."

National Park Service program recognizing sites tied to the American Civil Rights Movement.

Washington, DC

Student-founded organization supporting Black engineers and STEM students.

Alexandria, Virginia

National Trust for Historic Preservation initiative to preserve African American historic sites.

Washington, DC

A civil rights organization focused on economic empowerment, equity, and social justice for African Americans and other underserved communities.

New York City, New York

Historically Black fraternity founded at Howard University in 1911.

Historically Black fraternity founded at Howard University in 1914.

Research institute advancing equitable public policy.

Oakland, California

A progressive organization founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson that advocates for economic justice, civil rights, education reform, and civic engagement.

Chicago, Illinois

Regional network of Afro-descendant youth leaders and organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Research library and archive devoted to the global Black experience.

New York, New York

Historically Black sorority founded at Butler University in 1922.

Global maritime-archaeology and public-history network researching slave shipwrecks and slave-trade legacies, active in Portugal since the early 2020s.

Washington, D.C.

A civil rights organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that coordinated nonviolent protests and campaigns to dismantle segregation and secure voting rights across the South.

Atlanta, Georgia

Civil rights organization known for student-led direct action, voter registration, and grassroots organizing.

Atlanta, Georgia

Archive and museum preserving African American history in South Florida.

Miami, FL

International service organization of professional women of African descent.

Washington, DC

Supports publicly funded historically Black colleges and universities.

Washington, DC

Scholarship organization supporting historically Black colleges and universities.

Washington, DC

Historically Black sorority founded at Howard University in 1920.

Peruvian nonprofit advancing the rights and living conditions of Afro-Peruvian women.

Lima, Peru

Costa Rican civil society organization advancing the rights of Afro-descendant women, closely tied to Vice President Epsy Campbell Barr's activism.

Costa Rica

First formal Afro-descendant organization in Chile, leading the push for the country's 2019 tribal-people recognition law.

Arica, Chile

Colombian NGO cultivating leadership among Afro-Colombian and other historically excluded communities.

Bogotá, Colombia

Regional network coordinating Afro-descendant women's organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dominican Republic

The Baptistery of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore holds a polychrome marble funerary monument to Antonio Emanuele Ne Vunda (Antonio Manuel Nsaku ne Vunda), an ambassador sent by King Álvaro II of the Kingdom of Kongo to the Holy See in 1604. Aft

Rome, Italy

Non-profit cultural and youth association surfacing the African presence in Lisbon through tours, archives, and arts education for young people.

Oeiras, Portugal

Digital archive documenting contested sites and the legacy of the early Atlantic slave trade in Portugal.

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon-based Afro-descendant rights association leading Portugal's first public memorial to victims of slavery.

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon's municipal government, which has funded but repeatedly delayed the city's plaque initiative and slavery memorial.

Lisbon, Portugal

The Great Mosque of Córdoba (Mezquita-Catedral), begun in 785 AD under Umayyad Emir Abd al-Rahman I, is the preeminent surviving monument of Al-Andalus -- the roughly 780-year period (711-1492) in which Muslim, predominantly North African (Amazigh an

Córdoba, Spain

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence's town hall and former seat of Medici power, holds portraiture connected to Alessandro de' Medici (1510-1537), 'il Moro,' the first hereditary Duke of Florence and, per most contemporary accounts, the son of a servant identi

Florence, Italy

Santo Stefano degli Abissini (also known as Santo Stefano dei Mori) is an Ethiopian Catholic church behind St. Peter's Basilica, one of the only structures in the Vatican to survive the 16th-century demolition of Old St. Peter's, making it architectu

Vatican City, Vatican City

The Yorkshire Museum holds the remains and grave goods of the 'Ivory Bangle Lady,' a high-status young woman found in a stone coffin at Sycamore Terrace, York, in 1901 and dated to the second half of the 4th century AD. Isotope and craniometric analy

York, United Kingdom