Projectcurate

ImagiNoir/BLMHTX, a collective of academic researchers, activists, artists, religious leaders, and community organizers that aims to educate, empower, and build coalition in order to strengthen black communities and address issues that impact black lives is the city of Houston. The core pillars of the collective are critical dialogue, creative imagination, and coalition building. They leverage each of these pillars along with unique skills, talents, and passions of the collective members to create spaces that promote robust consideration of justice issues, imaginative blueprints for alternative, equity based community structures as wells as innovative, practical solutions to meet the needs of black Houstonians. In paticular, they seek to cultivate models of black leadership and community engagement that reject narrow approaches to movement building premised upon a solitary leader or spokesperson in favor of models grounded in interdependence, non-hieracrchy, and adaptaion.

Mutual Relief program: Provide financial assistance for rent, utilities and other basic needs for underserved persons, including those adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.