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Race & Justice
Preparing Youth for the Future
Nothing About Us
Without Us
Advocacy

COMMUNITY IMPACT

 

NBDC ensures that Black disabled lives are a priority in all spaces.

 

We work to promote disability equity in the greater Black community.

 

By dismantling ableist beliefs and perceptions about disabled people, we believe we will fulfill our

 

vision of seeing Black disabled people participating as full members in our own communities.

INITIATIVES
A selfie of Estes Slade, a middle age Black man with a clean-shaven head and face and a beaming smile. He wears a green heather hoodie and glasses.

Estes Slade Student Scholarship

Black disabled students are less likely than their white counterparts to attend post secondary education.
The NBDC Estes Slade Scholarship helps to offset
disability-related expenses.

A view into the Stages of Freedom museum and gift shop in Rhode Island, a tall picture window framed by a grand arch. Printed on the window, the organization logo in white: “Stages” in all capital letters, beneath that five chain links, the middle one wrenched open, and below that, “of” and “Freedom” written in a splendid cursive. Inside, stacks of books arranged neatly on a table and a postcard rack by the window.

Attorney Consultations

NBDC receives many inquiries from disabled people and family members who have no access to legal advice. The NBDC legal
Consult Program provides intake, assessment and guidance.

Programs
ONLINE PROGRAMS

Self-Care & Instinctive Living

Healthy living with disability in a world that is driven by ableism, racism, isolation, and competition can be all encompassing. Self Care & Instinctive Living provides the opportunity to share lived experiences, and techniques for self-care and the ability to support others. It is a time for healing.

A space away from whiteness and ableism.

Here’s to being fully grounded and unshakeable.

A multi-media art piece featuring a photograph of a Black woman’s face in profile. Her eyes are closed, her look serene, hair pulled back and away from her face. Superimposed over most of the piece are swirls, lines, curves, and waves in watercolor. From the left, the paint begins tranquil, in soft blue-gray and teal. Then, the woman’s forehead, eyes, nose, lips, and chin are unpainted. Beginning at her hairline and cheek, and moving down and back, are darker clouds and curves of paint, many black, cobalt blue, fire engine red, and yellow-green, obscuring the back of her head. The colors sweep back, some bleeding across the canvas, some with lines sharper and more cleanly defined than at the front. Beyond her shoulder, colors like an ocean drift toward the edge of the frame.
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Black Disabled Leadership

The curriculum is developed to promote a more accurate and complex understanding of Black disabled people and our evolution and contributions to the United States. 

The training combines the flexibility of online training with instructor lead skills.

The training examines the history of disability, services, practices, public policies and government agencies with the intersection of the Black disabled experience.

A Black man with glasses stands at a podium giving a conference presentation. His fingers are wrapped around the edges of the podium.
A multi-racial group of conference attendees listen to a presenter with focused attention. One sits in a power wheelchair, while the others sit in the neat rows of conference center seating.

Participants become leaders who can train in the Black disabled experience. They are able to articulate the intersection of disability and the Black experience to both the Black and disabled communities.

AFROMATIONS

I for one and I am sure many others recognize your extraordinary contribution in building NBDC. Your unwavering commitment and personal sacrifices set a standard for servant leadership few people have achieved. 

Thank you for allowing me to participate in this journey.

 

Jerome Harris

South Carolina

 

Such good and important news! It was an honor to be a part of NBDC. Look what I found in an old CV: National Black Disability Coalition, 2007-2014, hosting 2007 meeting, writing membership materials, proposals, white papers, and presentations. What's missing are the impacts you and NBDC had on our lives.

 

Jane Gravel, PhD

Oregon

 

Thank you for sharing this wonderful news! Your passion and continued vision for NBDC is the key to its continued success. I am honored to have played a role during the beginning stages. Working with you changed the trajectory of my life and exposed me to a world that I'd never known otherwise. 

 

Maya Miernik, M.Ed

Virginia

 

 

NBDC has done groundbreaking work to get research data as well as information to minorities who have been oftentimes misinformed or not informed. Their work has contributed to many people finding the resources that they need to make their lives successful. NBDC deserves many "kudos" for their outstanding work.

 

Rosemarie Harris

North Carolina

Black Disabled History

Unify, Don't Divide 
Challenge of the work we must do.

COMMUNITY
New Jersey Black Issues Convention
Florida Health
Beyond The Eyes, Inc.
The ARC Texas
Disability In Action, Inc. Atlanta
NBC News
ADA 30
Amazon
American Council of the Blind
The Ability Event 30
Massachusetts Office on Disability
The Divas with Disabilities Project
Eyes Like Mine Inc.
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center
Rutgers University
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University of Florida
Krip Hop Nation
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
National Federation of the Blind
WOW
Urban Matters Advocacy & Action
Autism’s Love: The Pilgrimage
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