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Unseating anti-Black racism calls for a multifaceted approach
Anti-Black racism is an intractable problem: it is pervasive, durable and adaptive. Unseating it calls for a multifaceted approach focused on both effects and root causes. With this in mind, 21Hundred’s spaces are distinct in focus and connected in purpose. Each is designed with intentionality, guided by framework through which we seek to create conditions for freer futures.
Becoming
Supporting racial justice leaders to nurture themselves and their ideas in pursuit of Black Flourishing.
The Fellowship Experience
The effects of anti-Black racism have created a violent and fragmented world, with deeply entrenched patterns of domination. As a result, people at the forefront of the struggle for racial justice are often left burnt out, isolated, and with little time and space to engage their imaginations to beyond responding to the most immediate crisis. That is why our 12-month Fellowship Experience invites changemakers from across the world into a collective journey of deepening their leadership, grappling with the global complexities of race, and unlocking their creativity for social change. At the end of the experience, Fellows return to their work with a clearer vision, a community of peers, and a reinvigorated sense of purpose — equipped to think expansively and act with daring towards Black Flourishing.
Throughout their journey together, Fellows embark on an interweaving exploration of race, racism and leadership throughout the world. At the intersection of the personal and political, the local and global, they hone their personal and collective visions towards reimagining themselves and the world anew, to build more equitable futures. Flowing bodies of water symbolise the journey, with each stream calling for a specific posture and set of leadership practices, with Fellows traversing the streams individually and together.
Outcomes & Expectations
By the end of the journey, we hope each Fellow has: • Gained insight into complex histories of race, engaged their imaginations about its potential futures, and grappled with the global forces that perpetuate white supremacy and anti-Black racism. • Developed personal strategies and routines to strengthen their long-term staying power in the fight against anti-Black racism. • Formed meaningful and robust lifelong relationships. • Articulated their next idea for impact and acted on their vision. Upon graduating, Fellows enter the 21Hundred Circle, with access to the Senior Fellows Community and 21Hundred’s other spaces. They also become Global Atlantic Fellows and join the wider Atlantic Fellows Community, coordinated through the Atlantic Institute.
Eligibility
All applicants must meet the minimum requirements listed below: • Have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in racial equity or related field. • Can commit to fully participating in all programming sessions including a 2-week residency in South Africa and weeklong in-person convening (Location TBD). • Will be living in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, or the SWANA region during virtual programming. • Will not be participating in another Fellowship programme during the programming dates. • Highly proficient in spoken and written English. • Kindly note that there are no academic qualifications required.
Support
• Round-trip travel, accommodation, food, and ground transportation costs for all in-person convenings. • Fellows may access up to $10,000 USD to support their leadership development and incidental costs of attending in-person programming. • Family care funding for Fellows supporting children, dependents, and family members. • Up to six and half hours of leadership coaching sessions.
beholding
Expanding the imaginative landscape for being Black in the world.
Moya Magazine
Moya explores the contours of Planetary Blackness, a vantage point that seeks to expand notions of what it means to be Black in the world.
Race Without Borders
Race Beyond Borders is a podcast by 21Hundred that looks at race from different angles, within South Africa, the United States, and beyond—to the wider world. At a time of growing attention to the present-day realities and legacies of anti-Black racism, Race Beyond Borders seeks to “trouble” conventional understandings of race and Blackness, and open new lines of inquiry beyond geographical divides.
Beyonding
Crafting new models, paradigms and patterns for relating as equals.
Innovation Projects
Generations of Black thinkers have insisted that dismantling racism requires more than reform. It calls for reimagining the work of being human — for new ways of being, relating and belonging in the world.
Inspired by this intellectual legacy, 21Hundred actively seeks new, more equitable ways of being human. We fund innovative projects in search of new models, paradigms and patterns for relating as equals.