As you may have noticed earlier this month The Black In Project is back! It has been a long time coming with much diligence and perseverance. Many days and months reflecting on how I wanted to move forward through the lens of an artist who honors and respects her lane. You may have noticed that the project has changed a bit in its language, visuals and more. Which I go into detail below. With these updates, you may be wondering how you can support the project.
About
Expanding and diversifying the narrative of success within the Diaspora.
The Black In Project is a cultural critique expanding and diversifying the narrative of success within the African Diaspora. This project provides a space for open and honest conversations with our community where they can share in their own words how they got to where they are today, the trials and tribulations, lessons learned, and guidance or advice they’d like to impart to the community. It is important that we have agency in the collection, sharing, and preservation of our narratives.
This project serves as a cultural archive that we are able to tap into, learn from, remember and revisit time and time again.
Project Segments
The Black In Project is compromised of the following segments: Features, A Word From Our Ancestors, Did You Know? Our Impressions On History, and Conversations Across The Diaspora.
Features
The core of the project, where Jakia Fuller, founder of the project, sits down in conversation with individuals in various fields and disciplines from across the Diaspora to speak about what success means to them and how it has impacted their journey, their work and much more.
The New Format: Starting with Eric Nixon’s feature, which becomes available tomorrow.
- Interactive Dynamic Collage
- Hybrid Long-form of conversation
- Audio of complete conversation
This is a work in progress, creating an audio library and finding the best platform that can handle the storage
Explore current features
A Word From Our Ancestors
A Word From Our Ancestors taps into the wisdom of our ancestors, to serve as a encouragement and motivation to the collective consciousness about how to move, navigate life and being authentically you.
For encouragement + motivation
Did You Know? Our Impressions On History: Educational Illustrations
Inspired and motivated by the current social climate, it’s important now more than ever to make sure that we are documenting, archiving and educating our communities on the accomplishments, achievements and contributions we are making and have made in the world. All illustrations are made by Jakia, with exception to the original drawings of inventions and patents.
To learn firsthand:
Conversations Across The Diaspora
Serving an a ongoing resource guide of various conversations happening across the Diaspora. Everything from interviews, organizations, businesses, podcasts, symposiums, collectives, communities, directories, etc.
How To Support The Black In Project
Does this project energize you? Inspire you? Encourage you? Make you feel seen? Or do you just love it? That’s great because here are some ways you can support this dynamic and impactful project. Because now more than ever in today’s climate, its important for communities to support and pour into these initiatives, efforts and projects.
- Make a donation via Paypal! Or if you prefer to contribute another way send an email to blackinproject@outlook.com.
Currently, The Black In Project is diligently worked on by one individual, multidisciplinary artist Jakia Fuller. To help with the maintenance and expansion of the project make a donation today. It can be as little as $5 to $100, every bit counts and matters. - Have a skill, tools, leads or resources that you want to share with? Let me know!
- Share with your family members, friends, acquaintances and colleagues
- Become a subscriber to receive the latest and greatest
- Follow us on Instagram, share and tag the @blackinprjt
- Leave a comment or send an email (blackinproject@outlook.com) on how the project is resonating with you, lessons learned, gems dropped, revelations and more!
It is our responsibility to archive and document our stories and narratives for ourselves and future generations. Thank you for contributing to this amazing, impactful, and dynamic project. Remember, it takes a village.
Jarifuller 
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