ImagiNoir/BLMHTX Organizing Collective is a HTX-based, black-women led collective of activists and organizers, artists, educators, & scholars addressing issues that impact black lives locally. In the wake of recent violence and brutality against black lives that continues to sweep the nation, ImagiNoir/BLMHTX formed in June of 2015 as a Black women-led, local collective of academics, activists, ar
tists, religious leaders and community organizers that aims to educate, empower, and build a coalition to address issues that impact black lives in the city of Houston. In all of our work, we emphasize three core tenets: creative imagination, critical dialogue, and coalition building--all in the pursuit of intersectional social justice. ImagiNoir/BLMHTX employs an Ella Baker model of community organizing, a model which brings people together for sustained and coordinated strategic action for social justice. As such, in addition to direct actions and political engagement with local civic leaders, we are committed to building community through programming, trainings, community meetings, and conferences that combine critical dialogue and the arts in ways that creatively highlight and confront issues of racism and social injustice. These community-building efforts are central to our aim of curating spaces for disparate members of the Houston community to collaborate, come together, and think about how to contribute to the valuing of black lives through their own areas of interest and influence.
