The Black Hive is at the heart of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) climate and environmental justice (CEJ) efforts. We are a cohort of Black CEJ experts who use our collective experience and knowledge to assess how climate change and ecological destruction impact Black communities in the U.S. and across the Global Black Diaspora. Together, we organize for cleaner, better, and safer futures for Black lives.

Black Futures Month is a visionary, forward-looking spin on celebrations of Blackness in February. The Movement for Black Lives is using this time to both consider and celebrate our Black radical history and to dream and imagine a world in which we are free and self-determined.

This summer we protested injustice and we were more than 25 million strong in the streets. Nearly 200 Freedom Fellows mobilized to fight for electoral justice and build Black political power. And we held the 2020 Black National Convention where we ratified a Black political agenda knowing Black voters will play a pivotal role in the 2020 elections.

Demanding justice is key to Black liberation. We rise up in defense of all Black lives because protests and mobilizations are the only way we've ever secured any rights in this country.

Civil rights activists paved the way for us in 1964 when they created Freedom Summer, which led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act and created the foundation for the electoral justice and political organizing efforts of progressive organizations today.

In response to a legacy of police and proxy violence that most recently took the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade, people have taken to the streets in protest. This uprising against excessive, brutal, and militarized policing has called for decision makers in city, state, and federal government to defund...

The current moment requires a solution that fundamentally shifts how we spend money as a society. That is why the Movement for Black Lives and allies nationwide are calling for a visionary bill that would divest our taxpayer dolllars from brutal, discriminatory policing and invest in a new vision of public safety - a vision that allows all people to be represented, free, and thriving.