black empowerment
African-descended community advancement
Black empowerment refers to efforts to increase the economic, political, and social power of Black people, particularly in contexts where they have been historically marginalized.
The term appears in policy discussions, corporate initiatives, and community organizing: The company launched a black empowerment program.
In South Africa, Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is a specific government policy framework designed to address apartheid-era economic inequalities.
- AfrofuturismAfrican diaspora speculative movement
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- activismDirect effort for reform
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
reparations · literacy programs · equity · representation · civil rights · financial literacy · systemic change · mentorship · coalition building · economic equity · generational wealth · diaspora · grassroots organizing · microfinance · self-determination · anti-racism · lobbying efforts · business ownership
- New South AfricaNelson Mandela, Mandela, rainbow nation, African National Congress, new constitution
- AfrocentrismAfrocentrism, cultural reclamation, ancestral wisdom, ancestral knowledge
- Nation of IslamNation of Islam, Malcolm X, Final Call, bean pie
- Pan-AfricanismPan-Africanism, African Union, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, back to Africa
black empowermentwhite supremacy
Doctrine of racial superiority
racial hierarchy · apartheid · Jim Crow · white nationalism · segregation
black empowermentenslavement
Forced human ownership
slavery · marginalization · dehumanization · voicelessness · powerlessness
black, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackness, blacker, blackest, blackish, blacks