We are a youth organizing collective bringing youth of color and our communities together to heal and resist oppression.
ABOUT THE MOVEMENT
OUR HISTORY
JOIN THE CONVO →
BECOME A LEADER →
WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO
In May 2018 our Healing Justice Organizers continued the process of relationship building with members of the HIV and AIDS movement when collaborating with Yvette Davis (one of our youth organizers’ mother) for Aids Walk New York at Central Park.
In May 2018 our Youth Organizing Collective was joined by artist London Sa’Rell and family as our Healing Justice Youth Organizes strategize and plan during our internal Healing Justice Mixtape political and cultural education session at the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions.
In May 2018 our Youth Organizing Collective (Y.O.C) supported the work going on at Laguardia Community College to bring Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex to the forefront of dialogue at the college.
In April 2018 our Healing Justice Organizers continued the process of relationship building and leadership development. Our Healing Justice Organizer participated on a panel focused on the impacts of incarceration on people and their families at Columbia University School of Health.
In April our Healing Justice Organizers continued the process of relationship building with the community at Teach for America’s Black Corps Member (Educator) Summit in Memphis, Tennessee focused on “Emboldened by Our Power, Grounded in Our History, Committed to Our Future: A Raw Conversation About Becoming an Unapologetic Black Leader For Our People.”
In April 2018 Our Youth Organizing Collective and family visited Jackson, Mississippi and Mississippi Delta to connect with blood family and movement history…. relationship building as a process of learning from the land, geography, and people/family/ancestors!
In April 2018 our co-founder continued the process of relationship building with the community at Paving the way Conference. Our Healing Justice Organizers participated in a panel discussion on intersectionality perspective to highlight the need for mutual healing within communities of color at Medgar Evers College.
In April 2018 The Youth Organizing Collective co-created a Healing Justice circle with 10th and 11th Graders High school sisters at the Resistance Chapter school on the prison industrial complex.
In March 2018 our Healing Justice Organizers went through a 1-Day introduction to Peacemaking Circle training with Kay Pranis at the Dream Charter School in Harlem.
MEDIA
H.O.L.L.A!Tv is a media outlet, organizing praxis and political space developed by youth of color to create visibility for H.O.L.L.A!'s Youth Organizing Collective and other marginalized communities of color who are interested in documenting their truth, generating rassroots knowledge and cultural approaches
to healing, leadership development, community organizing and self determination. H.O.L.L.A!Tv is a vehicle for transparency, engaging and report backing to the general public learned lessons from our Healing Justice Movement praxis and pedagogy.
NEW RELEASES
The Report Back - Y.O.C. The Youth Organizing Collective (Album)
This album was written, and co produced by H.O.L.L.A!’s Youth Organizing Collective for urban youth, communities of color, and their peoples.
