A Long Walk Home, Inc.

A Long Walk Home, Inc. A Long Walk Home, Inc. is an art organization that empowers young people and end violence against girls and women.
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Through the national and local programs, ALWH's multimedia performances, public talks, campus trainings and workshops, and youth leadership institutes, ALWH has educated over 100,000 survivors and their allies to build safe communities and to end gender violence.

We’re day dreaming and reflecting on a warmer time, last week when the Girl/Friends got together on their day off to bon...
02/23/2026

We’re day dreaming and reflecting on a warmer time, last week when the Girl/Friends got together on their day off to bond and skate. We had a great time fellowshipping, laughing, and developing our skating skills. Girl/friends made it around the rink without falling, learned how to skate backwards, and most of all we had fun 🤩.

Special shoutout to for the lessons ✨

02/17/2026

Jessie Jackson passed away on February 17, 2026, at age 84, leaving a legacy that reshaped U.S. politics and social justice. We thank you and will continue to honor your legacy. rest in Power!

Congratulations to our Executive Director for being recognized as one of Chicago’s leader who is also Black History. 🎉🩵R...
02/09/2026

Congratulations to our Executive Director for being recognized as one of Chicago’s leader who is also Black History. 🎉🩵

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Meet Scheherazade Tillet, a nationally recognized artist, healer, and organizer using art to confront violence, center Black girlhood, and create pathways to collective healing.

As co founder and Executive Director of A Long Walk Home, Scheherazade has empowered generations of young people through art to end violence against girls and women. From the groundbreaking performance Story of a R**e Survivor to initiatives like the Girl/Friends Leadership Institute, Our Black Girl Freedom Fund, and The Courage Fund, her work transforms pain into power and visibility into justice.

Scheherazade Tillet is Black History because she turned storytelling into sanctuary and art into action, honoring Black girls while building safer futures for our communities.

This is Black History in motion.

Tag a Black leader whose impact deserves to be celebrated today

02/02/2026

Welcome to Black History Month! We will continue to love through it 🫶🏾✨ ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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In the words of the great Nikki Giovanni, “we found a way to love through it.”

It feels good to be unapologetically Black.🖤

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten #1. Rekia Boyd Monument Project Finalist PresentationsOur number #1. On what woul...
01/01/2026

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten

#1. Rekia Boyd Monument Project Finalist Presentations

Our number #1. On what would have been Rekia Boyd’s 36th birthday, A Long Walk Home—together with Monument Lab DCASE, and the Chicago Park District—hosted the finalist presentations for the historic Rekia Boyd Monument in Douglass Park. In a space where Black communities have too often been asked to carry grief without care, five extraordinary artists—Nina Cooke John, Nekisha Durrett, Sonja Henderson, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Tiff Massey—unveiled visionary proposals that honored Rekia’s life and reimagined public memory in Chicago, centering Black girlhood, dignity, and collective protection.

And this moment didn’t arrive overnight. After more than a decade of campaigning, organizing, and building alongside Rekia’s family and community, ALWH helped move this vision from demand to design—bringing Chicago one step closer to a permanent monument in 2026, rooted in remembrance, justice, and celebration of Black girlhood.

Give tonight: Donate to ALWH and help us reach our $30,000 end-of-year goal by 11:59 PM CT on December 31. www.alongwalkhome.org

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten #2. New Cohort Leaders: Sweet Sixteen Year Girl/Friends Leadership�Now in its sixt...
01/01/2026

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten

#2. New Cohort Leaders: Sweet Sixteen Year Girl/Friends Leadership
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Now in its sixteenth year, ALWH’s Girl/Friends Leadership Institute welcomed a powerful new cohort of Black girl leaders from across Chicago. This year, we received more than 180 applications representing 82 schools for our 19th Girl/Friends cohort—the most ever. In partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), one of the top art schools in the country, participants earned college credit while receiving paid stipends and mentorship from leading artists and scholars. This decade-long partnership ensures Girl/Friends have access to college credit, artist mentorship, and SAIC’s state-of-the-art studios and resources.

Give tonight: Donate to ALWH and help us reach our $30,000 end-of-year goal by 11:59 PM CT on December 31. www.alongwalkhome.org

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten #3. Arts, Arts, Arts: The Rest, Recess, Resistance exhibitionThe Rest, Recess, Res...
01/01/2026

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten

#3. Arts, Arts, Arts: The Rest, Recess, Resistance exhibition

The Rest, Recess, Resistance exhibition at SAIC stood as one of the year’s most groundbreaking youth-led art showcases. Curated by Scheherazade Tillet and Girl/Friend Youth Leader Shukurah Floyd, the exhibition featured photography, installations, and performance-based work that centered Black girls’ joy, rest, play, and political voice.

Give tonight: Donate to ALWH and help us reach our $30,000 end-of-year goal by 11:59 PM CT on December 31. www.alongwalkhome.org

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten #4. The Award Goes To: National & Regional HonorsALWH’s co-founders, Salamishah an...
12/31/2025

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten

#4. The Award Goes To: National & Regional Honors

ALWH’s co-founders, Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet, received the prestigious 2025 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship, recognizing their visionary leadership at the intersections of photography, social justice, civic memory, and Black girlhood. In 2025, Scheherazade Tillet also received the Social Justice Award from Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy, while Salamishah Tillet was honored by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy during Women’s History Month and named an Emerson Collective Fellow.

Give tonight: Donate to ALWH and help us reach our $30,000 end-of-year goal by 11:59 PM CT on December 31. www.alongwalkhome.org

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten #5. Black Girlhood Altar & Red Clay Dance Company UniteBuilding on the national mo...
12/31/2025

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten

#5. Black Girlhood Altar & Red Clay Dance Company Unite

Building on the national momentum of ALWH’s Black Girlhood Altar, ALWH partnered with Red Clay Dance Company to expand the project in 2025. The beautiful premiere of dance performance featured music by at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) expanded the reach of the Black Girlhood Altar while solidifying the creative partnership between ALWH and Red Clay Dance within one of Chicago’s premier cultural institutions.

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Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten #6. New Funding Opportunities: CityArts Grants & the Kolibri FoundationA Long Walk...
12/31/2025

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten

#6. New Funding Opportunities: CityArts Grants & the Kolibri Foundation

A Long Walk Home secured major funding milestones, including a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. ALWH was also supported through Kolibri Foundation’s Reimagining Resistance Fund, the foundation’s final multi-year grantmaking initiative addressing rising authoritarianism, the criminalization of marginalized communities, and threats to civil society.

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten # 7: 54th Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundati...
12/31/2025

Countdown: A Long Walk Home’s Top Ten

# 7: 54th Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

A Long Walk Home was honored to be invited as a speaker at the 54th Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. in Washington, D.C.—the premier public policy convening addressing issues that affect African Americans and the global Black community. The panel featured leading voices, including Tarana Burke and Scheherazade Tillet underscoring the national urgency of advancing protections, equity, and visibility for Black women and girls.

Thank you for being part of the A Long Walk Home community in 2025, your partnership helps us build a more just and creative future, together. We’re halfway to our end-of-year $30,000 goal; please give by midnight Dec 31 to help close the gap—every gift, at any amount, moves our shared work forward.

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