About AAPF
OUR MISSION
OUR VISION
OUR VALUES
Utilizing new ideas and innovative perspectives to transform public discourse and policy, the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) promotes frameworks and strategies that reflect a vision of racial justice that embraces the intersections of race, gender, class, and other barriers that continue to disempower marginalized communities. We are dedicated to advancing and expanding racial justice and gender equality and to defending the indivisibility of all human rights while empowering the next generation to expand democracy, both in the United States and internationally.
At the core of our vision is a deep and firm commitment to knowledge as a means of advancing social justice and creating transformational institutional change. By bringing to the forefront pathbreaking innovative perspectives on equity and equality on behalf of those whose lives have been marginalized or distorted within the traditional boundaries of public discourse, we seek to introduce counter-narratives to the conventional perspectives that normally dominate mainstream debates.
We seek to reveal and clarify the truths that educate, inspire and empower us to create a more equal and just future. AAPF foregrounds critical perspectives on our democracy in crisis. It is vital to understand that the current crisis facing our democracy starts with a deliberate intentionality in terms of the undermining of racial and gender justice. We see this ideology exhibited in the suppression of protest and political participation and in the widespread efforts to ban public discourse of concepts such as intersectionality and structural racism.
WHO AND HOW WE SERVE
AAPF is an essential intellectual hub for social and racial justice movements. We are the movement home for Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory. With our 25-year history of scholarship, activism, and grassroots organizing, we are a go-to source for research, message clarity, and movement strategy. Our ongoing research programs provide the foundation for all of our work, enabling us to apply the insights of intersectionality to respond to current conditions, to anticipate future conflicts, and to play a significant role in shaping the discourses surrounding them. We resource public policy advocates, educators, students, parents, legislators, academics, activists, decision makers and vulnerable communities through our public education initiatives like our #SayHerName Campaign and the Under the Blacklight conversation series. Since March 25, 2020, for instance, our Under the Blacklight (UTB) series has focused attention on the disastrous and inequitable impact of COVID-19 on communities of color. Our public education outreach includes a Critical Race Theory Summer School, the annual Her Dream Deferred week addressing the condition of Black women and girls, free videos, and accessible research reports. The AAPF social justice writers’ retreats foster new insights and new voices. Our Breaking the Silence Town Hall Series teaches vulnerable communities to empower themselves and engage with their local governments. And our extensive media campaigns keep AAPF at the center of the conversation. We promote intersectionality for more than our network of collaborators, constituents, and partners. We mobilize the resources of intersectional organizing to strengthen and reclaim our multiracial democracy and empower the next generation.
You can find more materials at AAPF’s website, aapf.org. You can also follow us on our social channels on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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