Creating a model for Black autonomous communities.
WE’RE CHICAGO QUILOMBO
a liberated space that aims to restore and center the collective physical needs of Black young adults, Black women, and Black GNC folx onChicago’s South Side.
We’re creating the kind of communities we want to live in.
Affordable Housing for Young Adults (18-35)
Stabilizing Housing and Supportive Services
Organizing Fellowships and Programming
A restaurant and free food programs
Third Spaces to connect, relax, and have fun
In 2021, a group of BYP100 members came together to create an organization that we now call Chicago Quilombo. It is an organizing home, and a home in the literal sense. We are Black young adults creating spaces for us—
Izwe-Lethu!
Safety defined as “for us by us” without police
third spaces that affirm us...
