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Black Youth Alliance-WI is a community organization committed to teaching youth healthy relationship skills and Black history and culture.

Where young people are unapologetically free. Youth programming of We All Rise: African American Resource Center.

11/05/2026

"Disagreeing with somebody you care about can get real uncomfortable, real fast. 😭🫠

You might both remember something differently. One of you might think something is funny and the other absolutely does not. 👀 You might disagree about friends, plans, relationships, school, family, or something happening in the world. 💬

A disagreement does not automatically mean somebody has to win. It does not have to become insults, screenshots sent to everybody else, silent treatment, or saying the most hurtful thing you can think of just because you are mad. 📱😤

Sometimes a healthy disagreement sounds like, “I still don't agree with you, but I hear what you're saying.” 🤝🏿 Sometimes it means taking a minute before continuing. Sometimes it means apologizing for how you handled something without pretending your feelings were not real.

Caring about somebody and disagreeing with them can exist in the same relationship. 🫶🏿

I can disagree with someone I care about without treating them like my enemy. 💬🌱

Image description: Two Black teenage friends sit across from each other in a neighborhood pizza restaurant after school, talking through a disagreement over slices of pizza and drinks. One is a dark-skinned Black girl with a broad athletic build, a large rounded natural Afro, freckles across her cheeks, a varsity jacket, loose jeans, and colorful sneakers. Her friend is a medium-brown Black boy with a slim build, shoulder-length twists, painted black fingernails, subtle eyeliner, several ear piercings, and a soft oversized sweater. Their expressions are serious and engaged rather than angry, with phones resting face-down on the table as they listen to each other. Other teens, restaurant booths, backpacks, jackets, pizza boxes, napkins, and half-finished drinks make the scene feel casual and lived in."

11/04/2026

"Sometimes being the one who helps becomes so normal that nobody notices how much you are actually carrying. 🎒

Maybe you help with younger siblings. 👧🏾 Maybe you translate something for an adult, make dinner, run errands, help somebody get to an appointment, or keep things moving when someone you love is having a hard time. 🚌🍲📱

Helping your family can come from love. 🫶🏿 And you can love your people without becoming responsible for fixing everything that happens around you.

You are still allowed to have homework. 📚 Friends. Time alone. Music in your headphones. 🎧 Plans of your own. Rest. 😴 You are allowed to need help too.

Helping my family does not mean I have to carry responsibilities that are too heavy for me. 🫂🌱

Image description: A deep-brown Black teenage boy with long natural locs pulled loosely back sits at a kitchen table doing homework while his younger sister colors beside him. He has a slim build, visible acne and a small facial scar, and wears a thrifted oversized graphic T-shirt over a long-sleeve shirt with loose cargo pants. Their middle-aged Black father, wearing work clothes after a shift, stands at the stove preparing dinner while an older Black woman with graying natural hair sits nearby sorting mail. School papers, crayons, a backpack, grocery bags, a bus pass, dishes, and everyday household items make the kitchen feel busy, warm, and genuinely lived in. The teenager is participating in family life without being visually positioned as the person responsible for everyone else."

11/03/2026

"Nobody comes into the world knowing how bank accounts work, what credit means, how to read a pay stub, or why taxes took money out of a check. 😭💵

Money is something we learn. 🧠 And asking questions is part of learning it.

You can ask what a fee means. 👀 You can compare prices before buying something. 🧾 You can ask somebody to explain interest again. You can learn what is actually coming out of your paycheck. You can make a budget and change it when real life does not cooperate. 📱🪙

Knowing more about your money can give you more choices with it. 🔑 And you do not have to fake knowing something just because nobody taught it to you yet.

I can ask questions about money now instead of pretending I am supposed to already understand it. 💭💰

Image description: A medium-brown Black teenage girl and her dark-skinned Black teenage friend sit together in a casual neighborhood coffee shop after school, comparing a paper pay stub with information on a phone. The focal girl has a sleek shoulder-length burgundy fashion wig, dramatic winged eyeliner, a small nose ring, long decorated nails, and a fitted black top layered under an oversized denim jacket. Her friend has a short natural Afro, a fuller body, glasses, and a casual hoodie. Their backpacks, drinks, calculator, notebook, wallet, loose receipts, and a few dollar bills are scattered naturally across the small table as they work through the information together."

11/02/2026

"November begins Native American Heritage Month, and learning history can ask us to look beyond the stories we were first given. 📚🔎

For Black young people, knowing our own history matters deeply. 🖤 So does learning how other communities have survived, protected culture, told their own stories, and continued to exist despite histories of displacement, violence, and erasure.

Learning about another people's history does not mean claiming it as our own. It can mean listening. 👂🏿 Asking better questions. 💭 Learning whose land we live on. 🌎 Paying attention to whose voices have been left out of what we were taught.

There is always more history than one textbook can hold. 📖

My history is bigger than what I have been taught, and I can keep learning whose stories shaped the world around me. 🧠🌱

Image description: A dark-skinned Black teenage boy with a shaved bald head and visible vitiligo across portions of his face and hands sits at a large table in a warm contemporary public library. He wears a layered fall outfit with a rust-colored overshirt, black T-shirt, loose dark jeans, small silver ear piercings, and stacked bracelets. An open book, notebook, laptop, and several history books are spread naturally around him as he reads and takes notes. Other young people and community members are softly visible throughout the library, creating an active, lived-in environment rather than a staged study scene."

11/02/2026

"Some spaces make you feel like you have to stay ready. Ready to explain yourself. Ready to answer questions. Ready to prove you belong. Ready for somebody to misunderstand you. 😮‍💨

But belonging can feel different. 🫂 It can be the friend whose couch you can sink into without saying much. The room where your headphones go on and nobody takes it personally. 🎧 The people who already know your laugh, your quiet, your weird jokes, and the version of you that is just tired. 😂

You deserve relationships and spaces where you are not constantly translating yourself for everybody else. Sometimes feeling safe is being able to walk through the door, drop your bag, get comfortable, and just be. 🏠🧦

I deserve places where I can exhale instead of always having to explain myself. 😮‍💨🫶🏿

Image description: Three Black teenagers relax together in a cozy, lived-in youth lounge on a cold November afternoon. The focal teen is a plus-size dark-skinned Black girl with long waist-length box braids, oversized glasses, multiple ear piercings, and no visible makeup. She is curled sideways into a couch in socks and an oversized vintage sweatshirt, visibly relaxed rather than posed. A medium-brown Black gender-expansive teen with short locs sits cross-legged on the floor wearing headphones and sketching, while a lighter-brown Black boy in a knit beanie lounges nearby laughing at something on his phone. Backpacks, sneakers, charging cords, notebooks, snack wrappers, blankets, and jackets make the room feel genuinely occupied and comfortable."

10/31/2026

Growing up can feel strange sometimes. You notice things about yourself that were not there before. Something that used to matter feels less important. Something completely new catches your attention. You might feel more confident in one part of yourself while becoming less certain about another. 🍂💭

You do not have to turn every change into an answer about who you are going to be forever. Some things will stay. Some will shift again. Some parts of yourself are still waiting for experiences, people, places, and ideas you have not encountered yet. 🌱✨

There is room to experiment. To change your style. To discover new interests. To rethink an opinion. To meet new people. To keep pieces of yourself you love and leave other pieces behind.

You are not unfinished because you are still becoming. Becoming is part of being alive. 💫

Image description: A joyful documentary-style photograph shows Black youth and families walking through a neighborhood Halloween gathering on an October evening. In the foreground, a medium-brown-skinned Black teenager around 16 with an average build and shoulder-length twists walks with friends wearing a creative homemade costume assembled from metallic fabric, painted cardboard, sneakers, and everyday clothes. A dark-skinned Black girl with a fuller body and long braids wears dramatic face paint and carries a candy bag, while another teen with a slim build and a small prosthetic hand wears a playful cape and laughs with the group. Behind them, younger children in costumes move between decorated porches while parents, young adults, middle-aged neighbors, and elders talk beneath string lights. Pumpkins, fallen leaves, handmade decorations, candy bowls, jackets, wheelchairs and mobility aids naturally present among community members, and warmly lit homes make the scene feel like a real neighborhood celebration rather than a staged costume shoot.

10/30/2026

People ask a lot of questions about the future. What are you going to do after school? Where do you want to live? What do you want to study? What kind of work do you want? Sometimes it can sound like everybody expects you to already have a map for a life you have barely started living. 🗺️💭

It is okay if your answer changes. It is okay if you have three ideas, ten ideas, or no idea yet. You will meet people you have not met, learn things you do not know, discover opportunities you cannot see yet, and become versions of yourself you have not had the chance to know. 🌱✨

Planning can be useful. So can experimenting, changing direction, asking questions, and figuring out the next step before you figure out the next ten.

You do not need to know your whole future to keep moving toward it. 🌟

Image description: A cinematic documentary-style photograph shows a group of Black teenagers gathered near the shore of a Wisconsin lake during a cool late-October sunset. In the foreground, a deep-melanin-rich Black teenage boy around 17 with a broad build and shoulder-length twists sits on a low wooden dock wearing a knit sweater and work pants, looking across the water while talking casually with two friends. A medium-brown-skinned Black girl with a petite build, glasses, and a long natural Afro sits beside him with a notebook resting unopened on her lap, while a lighter-brown-skinned Black teen with an average build and short locs stands nearby holding a bicycle. Other community members walk along the waterfront in the distance. Jackets, backpacks, bicycles, fallen leaves, water, and the changing evening sky create an ordinary gathering place rather than a symbolic crossroads.

10/29/2026

Sometimes you know something is not working before you know how to fix it. You might be overwhelmed by an assignment, confused about a decision, stressed about something happening at home, struggling to keep up with everything, or simply know that you do not feel like yourself lately. 💭

You do not need a perfectly organized explanation before you reach out. "I'm having a hard time." "Can you sit with me?" "I don't know what I need yet." Those are complete places to begin. 🗣️🌱

The person you ask might help you figure out the next step. They might listen, help you sort through options, connect you with somebody else, or simply make sure you are not trying to figure everything out alone.

You can ask for support while you are still finding the words. ✨💛

Image description: A quiet documentary-style photograph shows a dark-skinned Black teenage boy around 15 with a slim build and neat cornrows sitting beside his older sister at a city bus stop on a cool October afternoon. He wears a varsity-style jacket and holds his backpack between his feet while talking with her. His sister, a Black young adult woman with medium-brown skin, an average build, and long natural locs pulled back from her face, sits beside him in healthcare scrubs under a fall jacket and listens without interrupting. A city bus approaches in the distance while commuters, fallen leaves, route signage, bicycles, and nearby storefronts make the transit space feel active and ordinary. Neither person appears distressed or posed; the scene captures the small moment of telling someone that something is difficult.

10/28/2026

Someone else might make the team, get accepted somewhere, finish something first, earn an award, start dating, get a job, or finally do the thing they have been working toward. You can be genuinely happy for them and still notice that little voice comparing their timeline to yours. 🎉💭

Comparison can make somebody else's good news feel like a scoreboard. But their moment does not erase the things you are working toward, and it does not mean you missed your chance. Your lives are not running on one shared clock. ⏰🌱

Cheer for your people. Let them have their moment. Then come back to your own life without using their success as a reason to rush yourself.

There is room for their win and your future at the same time. ✨

Image description: A joyful documentary-style photograph shows a group of Black teenagers gathered outside a neighborhood library on a crisp October afternoon. At the center, a dark-skinned Black teenage girl around 17 with an athletic build and long box braids excitedly shows her friends something on her phone while they celebrate with her. Beside her, a medium-brown-skinned Black boy with a larger build and a short rounded Afro raises his hand for a high-five, while a light-brown-skinned Black girl with a petite build and long twists laughs beside him. Another teen sits nearby on the low library wall with a backpack and sketchbook, smiling toward the group while continuing to work on their own project. Bikes, library books, backpacks, fallen leaves, and people entering and leaving the building make the setting feel like an ordinary after-school gathering rather than a staged celebration.

10/27/2026

Taking up space does not always mean being the loudest person in the room. Sometimes it means raising your hand when you have something to say. Wearing the outfit you actually like. Sitting comfortably instead of trying to disappear. Sharing your idea. Asking for what you need. Letting yourself be seen in a place where you belong. 🗣️✨

There can be pressure to make yourself easier for other people. Quieter. Less excited. Less expressive. Less noticeable. But constantly shrinking yourself can mean hiding pieces of you that deserve room to exist. 🌱💫

You can listen to others without disappearing. You can be considerate without becoming invisible. You can make room for other people while keeping some room for yourself too.

You belong in the spaces you are already part of.

Image description: A candid editorial photograph shows a Black teenage girl around 17 with medium-brown skin and a larger body speaking during an open-mic night at a neighborhood community café. She wears a deep green headwrap, wide-leg pants, a patterned sweater, and hoop earrings, standing comfortably at a microphone while reading from a small notebook. Her expression is focused rather than performative. Black youth and adults of different ages sit at small tables listening, including a young adult Black woman in a hijab seated with friends and an older Black woman with gray locs near the front. Coffee cups, notebooks, coats, string lights, local artwork, and a small platform create an intimate, lived-in community environment.

Address

430 South Webster Avenue
Green Bay, WI
54301

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+19207859115

Website

http://www.instagram.com/blackyouthalliance_wi

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