You’re invited to table at the 6th Annual Suitcase Sunday in partnership with Juneteenth in Queens!
This event will be on Friday, June 19 at Roy Wilkins Park from 12:00pm-8:00pm.
WITNESS is providing 40 vendors with free tables so they can sell their goods and services, build visibility, and earn income. If you’re interested in becoming a vendor, please go to the link below or scan the QR code on the flyer and apply!
VENDOR SIGNUP: https://forms.gle/MKUuZaSJM3Tx7bKi9
#witnesstomassincarceration #juneteenth #fip #nonprofit #formerlyincarcerated
Juneteenth in Queens is back for Year 6 and this time, we’re centering what keeps our communities alive and thriving: Black business.
Black to the Future is more than a celebration. It’s a marketplace, a movement, and a direct investment in the future of the small Black business economy. Our vendors are the main activation. Every purchase, every connection, every moment of support helps build sustainability, ownership, and long-term power in our communities.
Pull up, tap in, and shop intentionally. Come meet the creators, the builders, and the visionaries shaping what’s next in real time.
Free RSVP required: Links to register, get involved, and support are in our bio.
The future is Black-owned. Let’s build it together. ✊🏾
In light of recent events at our home, Roy Wilkins Park, Black Spectrum Theatre is committed to uplifting our youth and strengthening our community. We’re sharing thoughtful solutions rooted in care, creativity, and accountability to help create a safer, more empowering space for all.
#explorepage #southeastqueens #queenssupportqueens #ourcommunity
By request, we were asked to do more than post—we were asked to gather.
Our communities are carrying a lot right now.
And while violence is what we’re seeing, we know there’s more beneath the surface.
We’re holding space this Wednesday virtually to come together—to process, to be honest, and to think about how we can show up for our youth in real, supportive ways.
This is a space for listening.
This is a space for reflection.
This is a space for care—and collective action.
Join us.
Register at the link in bio.
Join us in collective prayer and community led by nycclergy as we honor the life of Jaden Pierre and pray for healing across our community.
Let’s come together to support his family and stand for peace in our neighborhoods. 🕊️
We’re holding the family of Jaden Pierre in our hearts. 🕊️
Roy Wilkins Park is a space meant for community,
for gathering, for joy, for life.
Gun violence has no place in our public spaces.
For Jaden.
For our community.
Grateful to share that The 876 Project (formerly VOYCE Inc.) has been selected as a recipient of the GO Queens Grant, funded by the Howard Gilman Foundation & selected by @flushing_town_hall ✨
Out of so many incredible organizations across Queens, we’re honored to be one of 25 arts and culture groups awarded general operating support to continue doing this work in community.
This $10,000 investment is not just funding—it’s fuel for the vision. It allows us to keep building spaces where culture, creativity, and community meet, from Juneteenth in Queens to the programs and stories that center us.
Thank you for believing in the power of community-rooted work. We’re just getting started 💫
#GOQueens #QueensArts #876Project #CommunityPower ArtsAndCulture
Spring is here 🌸🐣 Join us for Easter Egg Painting with the 113th Precinct — a day for families, creativity, and community connection. Come out, bring the kids, and let’s build together 💛
What makes Juneteenth in Queens so special?
It’s not just the festival… it’s the people behind it ❤️
This day is powered by community — and we’re looking for volunteers to help bring it to life.
If you’ve been looking for a way to give back, connect, and be part of something bigger, we’d love to have you.
We truly can’t do this without you.
🔗 Sign up: tinyurl.com/jiqvol2026
Weekends like this remind me why showing up matters.
The BPHA Legislative Conference brought together community leaders, advocates, policymakers, and residents all in one space — learning, connecting, and having real conversations about the issues shaping our communities.
This is where relationships are built.
Where information becomes power.
And where community voices help shape what comes next.
If we want stronger communities, we have to be in the rooms where the conversations are happening.
Civic engagement isn’t a moment — it’s participation.
#blacktothefuture
Our BPHA Legislative Conference Weekend panel on Black to the Future was incredibly thought-provoking. Thank you to @clydevanel on sponsoring the panel!
Rooted in the lineage of Afrofuturism — the belief that our history, culture, and imagination shape what comes next — the conversation explored what it truly means to build a future where Black communities are not just present, but central, thriving, and self-determining.
We talked about the intersections of technology, education, community, law, policy, economic power, and the arts — and how real progress happens when these systems work together.
Because the future isn’t built in silos.
It’s built through collaboration, across sectors, and across generations.
Black to the Future isn’t just a vision.
It’s work we’re building — together.
At the 55th Annual Legislative Conference in Albany, the 876 Project, in sponsorship with Assemblymember Clyde Vanel, proudly presents “Black to the Future,” an Afrofuturism-inspired conversation on shaping bold Black futures in New York. Designed as a forward-facing, high-energy dialogue, this session brings together leaders across policy, culture, and community to move from vision to strategy and from imagination to implementation.
This timely gathering explores what just, innovative, and thriving Black futures look like in practice, not just as ideas, but as actionable pathways. The panel features distinguished voices including Assemblymember Clyde Vanel, Norah Yayah of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Khaair Morrison of CVC Secondary Partners. Together, they bring cross-sector expertise in government, arts and culture, and legal strategy to a dynamic exchange on innovation, power building, and emerging opportunity.
The conversation will be moderated by Tunisia Morrison, founder of the 876 Project, who will guide a sharp, future-focused discussion grounded in community vision, institutional change, and real-world impact. The session highlights technology, policy, and creative practice as engines for collective progress and long-term transformation.
Attendees can expect a solutions-oriented, energizing dialogue that honors legacy while actively designing what comes next. “Black to the Future” is a call to think expansively, collaborate intentionally, and help build the future with clarity and purpose.
