Motivation and Purpose

Following the 2024 election, the Black Agenda Group, representing diverse African Americans from every county in Delaware, came together around a shared recognition: African Americans in Delaware must make important choices about our collective future.

There was broad consensus that despite decades of individual and collective efforts to eliminate race and color as determinants of social, economic, political, educational, and health outcomes, racial inequality has not disappeared. In many respects, the gains achieved through those efforts are now being challenged, diminished, or deliberately reversed. No other group has embraced the American promise more fully than African Americans.

The Black Agenda Group also agreed that  African Americans must continue working for racial equality.  However, a consequential question is how African Americans should organize that work in this new historical moment.

Formulating an action plan for social justice for  African Americans is neither simple nor immediate. A unified Black agenda will not emerge from a single summit, or organization. Rather, it will develop through post-summit meetings for continuing conversation, disagreement, collaboration, research, organizing, and action. What is essential is a commitment to the process.

The moment requires movement from concern to clarity, from clarity to collective priorities, and from collective priorities to action.

The Black Agenda Group is committed to facilitating sustainable activities by and for Black people to function optimally in Delaware without the burden of race and color. We must establish strategies and tactics that will make our choices real, concrete and impactful.  

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Black Agenda Group