The Black mecca Project (TBmP)

Since the 1970s Atlanta has been known to Black people around the U.S. and beyond as the South’s “Black Mecca.” Fifty years later, neither Atlanta’s “legendary” status as a Black mecca, decades of Black leadership nor the presence of Black wealth has led to racial, gender, and economic justice.

The Black mecca Project (TBmP) is a Black woman-led initiative where Black feminist futures are imagined and embodied now. TBmP gives radical nonconformists, freedom dreamers, and cultural workers an opportunity to experience glimpses of freedom and liberation that help to nurture and sustain their ability to exploit the limits of what’s permissible and make revolution irresistible in Atlanta and beyond.

We are dreaming of a network of radical dreamers in Black, autonomous, interdependent, land-based liberated sites and zones across the diaspora. We dream of a new TBmP land-based sanctuary center along with land-based territories where “people within the zones will control their local resources such as land, housing, and labor and will be the decision-makers on how these social elements will be maneuvered.”