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Amplifying Black, Brown + Indigenous voices
through documentary film, podcasts + panels.
🎬 Truth-telling. Healing.

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24/06/2025

📣 BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!! 📣

We won a $15K grant from Rochester Area Community Foundation! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

With help from our incredible fiscal sponsor Visual Studies Workshop, it's going to help us with our Being Black in America Collective Action Project - to host Being Black in America across Rochester with screenings, panel discussions, and a collective action to create meaningful change, build community and connection to support activists and changemakers on the ground doing the lifechanging work everyday in our city, and to lift up stories from Black educators, creatives, and community members!

We’ll be announcing dates, locations, and community partners soon —
but for now? We’re just letting it all wash over us. 💛

📲 Follow to be learn how to get involved and/or to support us in our journey to making this happen.

HUGE THANK YOU AGAIN TO Rochester Area Community Foundation and Visual Studies Workshop!

19/06/2025

HAPPY JUNETEENTH Y'ALL!

For Black folks, this is a day of remembrance, joy, celebration, and REST.

To non-Black folks, this day (and every day) is a reminder that Black liberation means liberation for all, especially Black folks whose identities are the most marginalized in our society - it's protect Black trans and q***r folks, Black women, disabled Black folks, Black poor folks, and our Black Incarcerated and formerly Incarcerated folks.

Generations of Black folks still carry the weight of our ancestors who were ripped from their homelands and forced into brutal labor under chattel slavery on stolen land. America was FOUNDED on it.

Attend a Juneteenth event and learn the history, seek out educational videos and books about it, read the list of demands from Black-run grassroots and mutual aid orgs in your city, buy from Black-owned businesses, watch films by Black directors whose stories paint Black folks in a multifaceted light (beware of those who constantly push struggle), and continue to examine these current systems that we're under through a decolonized lens. The work is far from over and it's on non-Black folks to listen to Black folks and do the work required towards liberation.

We're not free until we're all free! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

Our Voices Project is a Black-owned production company committed to sharing the stories and lived experiences of Black, Brown and Indigenous people through visual storytelling and truthtelling. FOLLOW US to hear and watch multifaceted stories of everyday Black folks, our history and Black representation in movies.

Mutual aid is how we win - give $ to Black and q***r folx in need through .

Support and donate to a genealogist reclaiming our history with The Brister English Project -

To support a Black business owner today, you can send $ via Venmo to Jackie-McGriff-1 or via Cashapp to $jackiemcgriff, Founder, Director, and Co-Producer of OVP.

Shop Black through !

05/06/2025

Delroy Lindo is WHAT?! It's a clip from our Sinners: The Black AF podcast episode!

Watch Hernease D find out in real time that the actor who played Delta Slim in the movie Sinners is not an American. Brianna Chantae gives us her breakdown of how this man's performances go beyond whether or not he himself can fully relate with Hernease tying it all to the Black diaspora.

We had SO much fun in the studio talking about this film - as you can well see.

Happy Sinners Digital Release Week! If you want more conversations breaking down the film, follow us for more clips from our 2 podcast episodes now on Spotify and YouTube!

16/05/2025

It's a 100/10 from us. 😁
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15/05/2025

Obsessed with Sinners and NEED to talk about it? We've got you!

We're recording our BLACK AF episode of Sinners LIVE at 6pm EST on THIS APP.

If it's red around our profile picture, we are LIVE! TUNE IN!

08/05/2025

Black teachers, professors, and educators, we see you and are thinking of you, especially this .

(Thank you Katrina Overby for your insight in this clip!)

As our government continues to eliminate programs committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and schools & universities rollback their DEI curricula and related majors, remember our Black educators. It is them who are being challenged and targeted disproportionately, it is them who will be affected regardless of what they teach.

To be Black in America as an educator is to constantly have your level of expertise and credibility questioned.

🚨 ACTION ITEMS 🚨
✔️Check in on your Black educators
✔️Show up to school board meetings and make sure school boards are upholding these programs,
✔️Email college deans and university presidents to demand that they stay committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (they will for sure have some sort of Diversity Statement).
✔️ Seek out lectures, workshops, and seminars that educate the community at large on the FULL history of this country

We MUST hold these institutions to nothing short of this standard. Compliance is violence!

If you liked the clip you just watched, follow us for more clips of BEING BLACK IN AMERICA and find out how to host a screening!

07/05/2025

When you win merch to what may be your favorite movie of the year (because how do you top ?!) & you're a photographer.

HUGE THANK YOU to for selecting me as the winner for the giveaway - this was definitely a highlight and I had to show my appreciation.

I got a t-shirt, a tote bag, and napkins (LOVE that!). 😍

Another thank you to for the studio space, for indulging me with this idea, and taking photos for me.

More photos to come!

05/05/2025

Today is May 5. A National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People ❤️

This is not a past issue.
It is not rare.
It is not isolated.
It is a national crisis.

Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people face disproportionately high rates of violence, trafficking, and homicide. In some regions, they are 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than non-Indigenous women. This is rooted in colonial systems that continue to devalue our lives—through racism, gendered violence, under-policing, over-incarceration, and government indifference.

This is why you should care:

• Because if it happened to your relative, you’d never stop fighting
• Because no one is disposable
• Because violence thrives where indifference exists
• Because love, safety, and justice should not be negotiable.
• Because truth demands more than awareness

This is about love.
Loving each other enough to speak out.
Loving our communities enough to protect them.
Loving this Land enough to confront the violence that stains it.

Ways you can help today and every day:

• Learn about the National Inquiry’s Final Report and the 231 Calls for Justice
• Read community-led reports like Red Women Rising
• Contact your MP. Demand implementation of the 231 Calls.
• Attend local vigils. Wear red. Light a candle. Say their names.
• Have conversations. Especially the hard ones. Especially at your kitchen table.

Above all—love one another fiercely. We are sacred. And we deserve to live without fear ❤️

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The red handprint represents the colonial violence that silences us. It’s become a powerful visual in protests, photoshoots, and awareness campaigns to honour MMIWG2S+ and to show that we will no longer be silent about this national crisis.

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