For Immediate Release
March 8, 2022
Press contact: Bethelhem T. Negash, bethelhem@undocublack.org
WASHINGTON – This International Women’s Day, the UndocuBlack Network pays homage to the scores of immigrant women who have helped propel the nation and the world forward. Throughout this Women’s History Month, the network celebrates and reflects on the accomplishments of immigrant women who have fought for safety and security for all women.
“Undocumented Black women have been active agents in challenging injustices. The UndocuBlack Network celebrates the strength, commitment, diversity, hard work, essentiality and perseverance of undocumented Black women within our membership, our leadership, and outside of UndocuBlack, who, despite lack of social and economic support and relief from the government, stood their grounds and fought against the additional barrier of the pandemic and their immigration status. ”
“Undocumented Black women have been at the forefront of pushing for change in this country. Be it the civil rights, workers’ rights, women’s right or immigrant justice, immigrant Black women have worked hard to create a society where all belong and all can thrive. Undocumented women understand that immigration status should not determine a person’s ability to live healthy and whole lives.”
As a Black, undocumented, women-led organization, UndocuBlack has continuously stood alongside Haitians, Cameroonians, Mauritanians and all marginalized women, who are exploited and abused, in their fight for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and a pathway to citizenship via green cards.
The UndocuBlack Network celebrates the strength, commitment, diversity, hard work, essentiality and perseverance of undocumented Black women within our membership, our leadership, and outside of UndocuBlack, who, despite lack of social and economic support and relief from the government, stood their grounds and fought against the additional barrier of the pandemic and their immigration status. Undocumented Black women have been active agents in challenging injustices.
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The UndocuBlack Network, under the leadership of Black immigrant women, has been recognized and honored with the Young People For 2018 Movement Builder Award, the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award (May 2018); the National Lawyers Guild Daniel Levy Award (September 2020) and the Bayard Rustin Human Rights Award (July 2021).
