Thurs Feb 22nd, check out .Ujima Community Roundtable on Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM). WLP youth will participate in a panel that explores best practices on supporting and uplifting teens and youth experiencing different forms of violence us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Thank you so much Christine Devine & the amazing editor for this segment 💕Highlighting my journey coming back to South Central, Los Angeles after college to build independent grassroots media🗞️ In honor of #womenshistorymonth 🎉❤️🎥 📸

Check out our upcoming spring events and activities amplifying Black girls and queer youth organizing and peer education on sexual and domestic violence prevention education, mental health, the arts and gender justice womensleadershipla.org

Black women in the Bay area! Are you passionate about mental health advocacy in the Black community? Do you want to learn how to support loved ones and break the stigma? Participate in Sisters Mentally Mobilized - Advocate Training Program (SMM-ATP) apply: bit.ly/SMMBay24

Sat 5/11 pre-Mother's Day #Standing4BlackGirls Missing & Murdered pop-up rally and guerilla theater action at City Council District 8, which has the largest population of Black folks in L.A. yet no youth centers or accessible safe spaces for Black women and girl DV victims

If you want to understand why the FBI needs to investigate Mitrice Richardson's case, this podcast has some of the reasons. #justiceformitricerichardson #endpolicecorruption youtu.be/cHElvYCzoeU?si…

Congrats to UCLA-bound King-Drew HS alumnus WLP student leader and peer educator Vanessa Chavarin, who will be receiving one of our Lorraine Hansberry Humanist scholarship awards this week!

Check out our upcoming events and actions, we'll be tabling at this weekend's Stoneview Nature Center "Pride Outside" event & going to City of Los Angeles Hall next week to demand justice for Black women and girls and Black LGBTQIA+ DV and sexual violence survivors womensleadershipla.org

Please participate in @UntilFreedom's 10-city National Day of Mourning for #SonyaMassey — killed by a sheriff's deputy in her Springfield, Illinois, home. This daughter, mother, friend, and so much more deserves our attention.🙏🏿 🎥: IG/Roland Martin

Personnel files reveal troubling details about Sean Grayson's work history before he fatally shot Sonya Massey. Grayson admitted to past alcohol abuse and faced multiple complaints and disciplinary actions. How did he get hired in Sangamon County, IL? nbcnews.com/news/records-d…

SAT: Our next Black feminist book club features Vanessa Lewis' "Reclaiming Ugly" & Mikki Kendall's "Hood Feminism" on affirming Black queer, neurodivergent communities, identities and organizing against white supremacist misogynoirist erasure womensleadershipla.org

Don't wait – check your state's voter registration deadline today and make sure you're registered and ready to vote. And then share this with your friends and family so everyone's ready to vote early or by Election Day. VoteSaveAmerica.com/Obama

#Fredericksburg, #Virginia: 15y/o Cristian Bryant has been #Missing since Sept. 5. He was last seen in the Riverside Manor Complex. Have you seen Cristian? #CristianBryant

Highly recommend .Joan Baez biopic "I Am A Noise", on Baez's career as a pioneering Latina civil rights activist-musician, artist and truth teller, fighting racism, sexism and trauma in the white-dominated folk rock world #HispanicHeritageMonth youtu.be/dhcV1gEat_c?si… YouTube

Challenging toxic backlash against LGBTQ+ communities, we were proud to participate in the City of Huntington Park's first Pride fair last June. We were recently made aware that signs for a queer student group were ripped off the wall at one of our South L.A. partner schools

WLP alum and #Standing4BlackGirls leader Ashantee Polk on why Black women and girls have some of the highest rates of domestic and sexual violence and criminalization and what we're doing about it

Thousands marching tonight in NYC shutting down 3rd Ave at the Within Our Lifetime action to protest Netanyahu’s scheduled speech at the UN and demand Eric Adams resign as mayor 🇵🇸

WLP 11th grade writer Ama Boateng: " #Project2025 intentionally targets marginalized groups, hoping to silence them in the political arena. This is not something I can stand by and watch happen" Can I Still Go To College? - Women's Leadership Project (womensleadershipla.org)

We’re excited to announce that we will be in the Boston area this weekend for a benefit concert launched on our behalf in partnership with Berklee College of Music’s Jazz & Gender Justice Institute, featuring Debo Ray and these incredible musicians! bit.ly/40YSsTr

Today #Standing4BlackGirls benefit concert kicks off in partnership with Berklee College of Music's Jazz & Gender Justice Institute featuring amazing Black, BIPOC women and queer multi-genre artists, raising awareness about our work! Livestream and tix bit.ly/40YSsTr