Our communities are engaged in intentional and deliberate assertion of our power.
We are designing alternative practices, building institutions and infrastructure, imagining and changing our neighborhoods.
We are centering people and spaces that traditional investment or development lenses do not want to see.
We are facilitating our wild and beautiful ambitions.
We are doing us, uninterrupted.
Photo Archive Practioner’s Lab Public Assembly Day 1 Public Assembly Day 2
Day 2 deepened the Assembly’s rhythm, moving from orientation into practice and play. The morning opened with grounding and collective framing before participants spread across sessions that stretched from cooperative economics to cultural organizing, policy, and Black enterprise. Each room carried its own current, yet all circled back to the shared work of building infrastructures for Black possibility. Between the formal sessions, moments of wellness, film, and artistic expression created pauses for reflection and embodiment.
In the afternoon, the Assembly leaned into experimentation and exchange. Conversations on narrative power, land, faith, and finance intertwined with unconferenced offerings that made space for rest, improvisation, and relation. The day closed in joy—activations and a welcome reception that blurred the line between program and gathering—reminding us that possibility is not only studied or planned, but also felt and lived together.