Black Horizons Coalition
Black Horizons Coalition organizes Black communities around a shared agenda, then translates that agenda into the political, electoral, and policy outcomes that move Black families from surviving to thriving.
It is the place where imagination meets possibility. Black communities have the tools, relationships, and collective power to help shape what democracy becomes.
We listen to what Black families say they need. We connect those priorities to public decisions. And we organize across communities and generations so that our collective voice produces meaningful, measurable change.
Step 01
Black communities identify the issues that matter most to their families and futures.
Step 02
People build shared understanding, relationships, and collective power around those priorities.
Step 03
Community priorities inform civic participation, electoral engagement, and policy action.
The coalition
Coalition work happens in living rooms, church basements, barbershops, and school cafeterias, wherever Black families already gather. What we hear becomes the agenda we organize around.
Our work meets people at three essential points: making informed choices, protecting representation, and preparing the next generation to participate and lead.
Turn what you care about into how you vote.
Most ballots ask you to choose between names you do not know, for offices you may never have heard of. The Voter App flips that script: tell us the issues that matter to your family, and explore how publicly documented candidate positions and ballot measures connect to them.
Explore the Voter AppProtecting a right that was never freely given.
In 1965, Black communities helped win landmark voting protections through organizing, sacrifice, and refusal to back down. The 1965 Project carries that legacy forward by organizing voters around access, participation, and Black representation.
Learn About the 1965 ProjectBuilding the future is a skill. We are teaching it early.
Democracy depends on people who know how to organize, advocate, collaborate, and lead. The Founders Project equips young people with the skills to engage in civic life now, so the next generation is not only eligible to lead. It is ready.
Explore the Founders ProjectOur north star
Thriving is more than surviving a crisis or navigating a broken system. It means Black families have the resources, stability, representation, and freedom to live well and the power to shape the institutions and decisions that affect their lives.
It is something we can imagine, organize, and build together.