THE STAY PROJECT

  • About STAY
    • What is STAY?
    • We Know This To Be True
    • Our Work
    • Staff & Steering Committee
    • Central Appalachia
    • Partners
  • Programs
    • STAY Summer Institute >
      • 2020 Virtual STAY Summer Institute
      • What is SSI?
      • Previous Years >
        • SSI 2018: Celebrating 10 Years of STAY
        • SSI 2017
        • SSI 2016 Photos
    • Black Appalachian Young & Rising >
      • What is Black Appalachian Young & Rising?
      • Fund Black Appalachian Futures
    • Appalchian Love Story >
      • About Appalachian Love Stories
      • Appalachian Love Stories Blog
      • Appalachian Love Week
      • Appalachian Love Fest!
  • Get Involved
    • Be a STAY Member
    • Calendar
  • Resources
    • COVID-19 >
      • COVID-19 INFORMATION
      • MUTUAL AID
    • Member Support Fund
  • STAY in the News
    • Newsletter
  • Donate
  • STAY Project Zine
  • About STAY
    • What is STAY?
    • We Know This To Be True
    • Our Work
    • Staff & Steering Committee
    • Central Appalachia
    • Partners
  • Programs
    • STAY Summer Institute >
      • 2020 Virtual STAY Summer Institute
      • What is SSI?
      • Previous Years >
        • SSI 2018: Celebrating 10 Years of STAY
        • SSI 2017
        • SSI 2016 Photos
    • Black Appalachian Young & Rising >
      • What is Black Appalachian Young & Rising?
      • Fund Black Appalachian Futures
    • Appalchian Love Story >
      • About Appalachian Love Stories
      • Appalachian Love Stories Blog
      • Appalachian Love Week
      • Appalachian Love Fest!
  • Get Involved
    • Be a STAY Member
    • Calendar
  • Resources
    • COVID-19 >
      • COVID-19 INFORMATION
      • MUTUAL AID
    • Member Support Fund
  • STAY in the News
    • Newsletter
  • Donate
  • STAY Project Zine
Picture

A Gathering for Black Appalachian Youth


Our lives involve a history and current reality of brilliance and struggle. The complexities are many, but connection guides our celebration of blackness and also our strategy for change.  Our beautiful existence intersects with state violence and erasures amongst systems of racism and economic injustice.

Black, Appalachian, Young & Rising

So what does it mean to live here, be young, and be Black? Our gathering and consequent network will analyze this question and push this analysis into collective action. We will be creating a dignified and autonomous space for Black youth to:

1) define Black Appalachian joy and identity for ourselves
What encompasses our joy and who we are? 

2) begin a restorative process for Black leadership in regional youth networks such as Stay Together Appalachian Youth (STAY)
What does it take for us to thrive?

and

3) celebrate the many shades and melodies of our existence
We out here,yall!

Our gathering will be occurring in November and will be coordinated by Black youth who are living in Central Appalachia and ready to build for what we want for our present and futures.

So how can you contribute to Black Appalachian futures?
Donate!  We need funding for 7 advisory committee members’ labor to meet and shape this gathering and future actions, 3 coordinators to hold down logistics and communications, and travel support for 20 Appalachian youth to be together and build!

Donate to support Black Futures
*This gathering is the work of Black Appalachian Youth for Black Appalachian Youth and not a program of the STAY Project - So why is it on STAY's website and what is the STAY Project's role in this gathering? Click Here to find out*
If you have questions, please contact Mekyah Davis at mekyahdavis.stayproject@gmail.com

STAY TOGETHER APPALACHIAN YOUTH

Home
About
Become a Member
Donate

Contact

Donate To STAY
The STAY Project
​stayproject@gmail.com

1959 Highlander Way
New Market, TN 37820