Black Lives Matter Sacramento

Erykah Badu (6/20/23) concert with mothers and family members who lost children and siblings at the hands of Sacramento law enforcement. 

This year, Black Lives Matter Sacramento is raising money to complete the plumbing to our Community Home and Land Project, and cover the costs of the permit for our new building!

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COMMUNITY HOME & LAND PROJECT

Black Lives Matter Sacramento has purchased two parcels of land in Sacramento's Historic Black neighborhood Oak Park.

The first parcel we are building a community home. 

This space will provide workshops, classes, exchanging mutual aid resources, respite, a library, fitness, skill set trainings, monthly community meals, and so much more!

- Vrilakas & Groen has volunteered their architect services

- Community members with certain skillsets have/will be helping with plumbing, electricity, etc..

The second parcel is home to our Blacker the Berry & Greens Community Garden. 

This is where we grow veggies, fruits, nuts, and beans. We make compost, teach how to garden, teach the history of Black agriculture in the US, provide your folks with their own food to grow in a pot or in your yards. This space is for learning, growing food, healing, sustaining, and so much more!

- Black folks in Sacramento have the highest unemployment rates at 46%

- Average income for Black Sacramentans is $27,555 a year ($16,446.00 less than white. Sacramentans)

- Own the least number of homes (34%)

- Highest number of unhoused students (5.6%) (1462 Black students are experiencing homelessness)

- Black Sacramentans are 3x more likely to experience homelessness 

- Historically Black neighborhoods are seeing a jump in rents of nearly 70%

- Sacramento has second highest rent burden for Blacks behind San Diego

- Black households are spending over 50% of their income on rent in Sacramento, while white folks are spending 30.5% of their income on rent in Sacramento. 

We are trying to help get resources into the hands of Black folks.

Our Community Home and Garden is a safe space for Black Sacramento to create self-sustainable, self-reliant, and community-reliant alternatives. We currently have over 100 community members, who will provide mutual aid services such as educational workshops, legal clinics, gardening workshops, tutoring, trade skills, child care, therapy, dance lessons, college application assistance, healthcare application assistance, and so many more services.

Mission

Black Lives Matter Sacramento is committed to pushing the line against systemic racism, state and local government sanctioned violence, and the violence and terrorism of Sacramento’s Black communities. Whether that comes in the form of rising rents and homelessness, low wages and poverty, mass incarceration, police terrorism, or murder by law enforcement.

We fight for all Black lives - whether they be African, Caribbean, African American, Afro-Latinx, Afro-Asian, etc. – who are enduring sanctioned violence in the form of the denial of basic human rights, police brutality, and discriminatory policies that unfairly target communities of color.

We fight for all Black lives - affirming the lives of Black women, Black queer and trans folks, Black disabled folks, Black-undocumented folks, Black folks with records, and all Black lives along the gender spectrum.

#Rent4Moms Campaign where BLM Sacramento raised enough money to cover the rent of 11 single Black mothers. (1/2023)

We fight for all Black lives - centering those that have been marginalized within Black communities through institutionalization, gang databases, or simply fitting the description that is often profiled, pulled over, and criminalized with broken glass laws (windows tinted, probation searches, etc…)

Black Lives Matter Sacramento is committed to pushing the line to impact laws, policies, and ordinances that lean into community power, government oversight, and eventually the abolition of this system. Creating structures within community where the people are the resources to the functioning of community protection and sustainability.

Lastly, Black Lives Matter Sacramento is committed to bringing joy, healing, and safe spaces into Black communities that are the most impacted and terrorized by sanctioned violence, and intra community violence.

Protest for Sherrano Stingley killed by the Sacramento Sheriff Department while suffering a mental health crisis.