undocublack network

What We D0

community-driven campaigns

UndocuBlack develops campaigns with community members as key leaders who sometimes engage with government officials to pass legislation that benefits the community. 

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community wellbeing

Undocublack prioritizes wellness by embedding it into every aspect of its work. It ensures the health and happiness of its members by having a holistic approach to its policy advocacy and narrative and storytelling work, always centering the wellbeing of its members as they strive towards their collective goals.

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Masked person in a t-shirt that says "Immigration is a Black Issue" looking at the camera with a raised left fist outside of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection office
Three people standing outside at the bottom of the Supreme Court steps wearing shirts that say "Immigration is a Black Issue"

Our Story

The UndocuBlack Network (UndocuBlack) was founded in 2016 as a multi-generational network of former and current undocumented Black people, from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. As a member-based organization, UndocuBlack responds to the urgent and long-term needs of members. UndocuBlack empowers its members by holding media and narrative trainings, policy, and advocacy workshops and Know Your Rights sessions. To become a member of the organization, individuals have to Black and have the undocumented experience (currently or formerly). A crucial approach to its work, UndocuBlack centers the humanity, dignity, and wellbeing of its communities––members and staff recognize that being undocumented can feel isolating and ground its network in Black joy and wellbeing. 

UndocuBlack has a special community-driven mission. It is a multi-generational network of diverse communities of Black people with migratory patterns in the United States. The communities in the UndocuBlack network include, but are not limited to, currently and formerly undocumented young people, elders, students, differently abled people, entrepreneurs, LGBTQ people, houseless and unhoused people, formerly incarcerated people, and people holding temporary legal status. This diverse, inclusive, and expansive network (the “UndocuBlack Community”) fosters community, facilitates access to resources, and advocates to transform the realities of UndocuBlack Community members across the United States. UndocuBlack equips community members with the skills to not only survive, but thrive by: 

  • Developing the leadership of members through tools, training, and programming.
  • Building power with and for Black immigrant communities through advocacy, local organizing, and cultivating strategic alliances to advance policies that affect the  daily lives of members.
  • Centering the humanity, dignity, and wellbeing of Black immigrant communities in all aspects of its advocacy, wellness, and media and narrative work.

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