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Your voice.
Your next chapter.

There is room for your creativity, your questions, and the future you want to help shape. Start with something that interests you.

FIND YOUR NEXT STEP

Choose something worth exploring.

01

Try on a possibility.

Explore careers through Black role models and practical projects. Save a plan for your next step.

Explore Future Me
02

Keep your own judgment.

Practice checking claims, recognizing scams, and noticing what a post leaves out.

Try the Media Literacy Lab
03

Go further than a headline.

Explore knowledge, art, ownership, and invention through places and original sources.

Open History Explorer
04

Put your voice into something.

Make a visual message that says something about what matters to you.

Create your own design
SOMETHING YOU CAN START THIS WEEK

Make something
that says something.

Choose a small project: a four-panel comic about a family memory, a paper prototype of a useful app, or a sketch of a place your neighborhood needs.

Keep a plan
  1. Notice.What matters to you? Who is affected?
  2. Make.Start with paper, a draft, or a small experiment.
  3. Listen.Show someone who wants to help and ask one useful question.
BLACK JOY / COMMUNITY INSPIRATION

Good things are happening.

Community Wins
Technology

Black Girls Code

The next generation can build the tools.

Read the storyCreativity

The quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend

A family skill becomes a lasting art.

Read the storyFood & ownership

D-Town Farm

Growing food. Growing community.

Read the story
BLACK JOY / EVERYDAY FAMILY LIFE

Good things count, too.

A few small ways to make room for each other.

01 / NAME THE GOOD

Celebrate a little progress.

At a meal or check-in, each person shares one thing they tried, learned, or appreciated. Let effort have its moment.

02 / PASS SOMETHING ON

Make a family soundtrack.

Ask each generation to choose a song and tell the story it brings to mind. Choose music everyone can enjoy together.

03 / REMEMBER TOGETHER

Keep an ordinary memory.

Write or draw a moment you want to remember. A funny conversation or a quiet act of care can become part of your family story.