Upcoming Events
Organizing & Power 101 Training
Join People’s Justice Project for a free training on organizing and power, where you’ll learn about how to engage our communities in organizing for justice.
No experience needed—just a commitment to building power for our people.
Black AF Study Group: Authoritarianism
How did we get here? Questions on Authoritarianism.
Across the world — and right here at home — we’re seeing the rise of systems that silence dissent, limit freedoms, and concentrate power in the hands of a few. But how did we get here, and what can we do about it?
Join the People’s Justice Project for our next Black AF Study Group as we explore the roots of authoritarianism and its manifestations in our daily lives. Together, we’ll explore the ways Black communities have resisted control and built collective power — even in the face of oppression.
This is a space for learning, dialogue, and connection. Whether you’re a longtime organizer or just beginning to explore these ideas, you are welcome here.
2025 Take Black the Vote
Voting is one of the most powerful tools we have to shape our communities and demand the change we deserve. Our people have always known that self-determination is the key to freedom. And we must advance our agenda for freedom by using all the tools at our disposal, including the ballot box, to increase our power. It’s more important than ever that our people are registered, informed, and ready to vote.
Join People’s Justice Project for a free, dynamic, in-person event, where you’ll learn how to have impactful conversations and engage our communities around the importance of voting. After the training, we’ll head out into the neighborhood together to register voters and help increase connections in the community.
Lunch will be provided. No experience needed—just a commitment to building power for our people.
At this event, you can expect to learn:
How we can engage with apathetic potential voters
Canvassing Best Practices and Roleplay
Voter Registration Best Practices
You will also have the opportunity to build community with organizations from around the state and the region!
Co-sponsors include: Black Voters Matter, Columbus Stand-up, Rewriting the Narrative, Showing Up for Racial Justice - Central Ohio Chapter, Ohio Women's Alliance.
Black AF Study Group: Black Power
Join us for a dynamic and unapologetic deep dive into the roots and impact of African enslavement—told through the lens of African people themselves. This experience will trace the development of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, with a focus on the United States, while centering Africa’s resistance and the enduring struggle for freedom, self-determination, and the dismantling of colonial slave economies.
Grounded in historical truth and radical analysis, BAF will explore the political economy of slavery, the internal structures that upheld it, and the international systems of capitalism and colonialism that continue to shape our world today. We’ll uplift the stories of rebellion and resilience from Africa to the Americas, highlighting the power of the African working class and the unrelenting fight for liberation.
Participants will:
Gain foundational knowledge of the global forces that fueled European development and African destabilization.
Examine the international slave trade’s direct ties to capitalism and colonialism.
Explore historical patterns of resistance, unity, and transformation across the African diaspora.
Connect past struggles to present-day conditions and movements for Black liberation.
Learn historical tools of analysis to better interpret our past and shape our collective future.
Whether you’re a student, organizer, educator, or truth-seeker, BAF is a call to study, struggle, and reclaim our history with clarity and power.
Canvass for the People: Voter Registration Training + Community Action
Voting is one of the most powerful tools we have to shape our communities and demand the change we deserve. With critical local, state, and national elections on the horizon, it’s more important than ever that our people are registered, informed, and ready to vote.
Join People’s Justice Project for a free canvassing and voter registration training, where you’ll learn how to have impactful conversations at the doors and engage our communities around the importance of voting. After the training, we’ll head out into the neighborhoods together to register voters and help ensure our voices are heard at the ballot box.
Lunch will be provided. No experience needed—just a commitment to building power for our people.
Black AF Study Group: What is Pan-Africanism?
Join us for a dynamic and unapologetic deep dive into the roots and impact of African enslavement—told through the lens of African people themselves. This experience will trace the development of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, with a focus on the United States, while centering Africa’s resistance and the enduring struggle for freedom, self-determination, and the dismantling of colonial slave economies.
Grounded in historical truth and radical analysis, BAF will explore the political economy of slavery, the internal structures that upheld it, and the international systems of capitalism and colonialism that continue to shape our world today. We’ll uplift the stories of rebellion and resilience from Africa to the Americas, highlighting the power of the African working class and the unrelenting fight for liberation.
Participants will:
Gain foundational knowledge of the global forces that fueled European development and African destabilization.
Examine the international slave trade’s direct ties to capitalism and colonialism.
Explore historical patterns of resistance, unity, and transformation across the African diaspora.
Connect past struggles to present-day conditions and movements for Black liberation.
Learn historical tools of analysis to better interpret our past and shape our collective future.
Whether you’re a student, organizer, educator, or truth-seeker, BAF is a call to study, struggle, and reclaim our history with clarity and power.
Canvass for the People: Voter Registration Training + Community Action
Voting is one of the most powerful tools we have to shape our communities and demand the change we deserve. With critical local, state, and national elections on the horizon, it’s more important than ever that our people are registered, informed, and ready to vote.
Join People’s Justice Project for a free canvassing and voter registration training, where you’ll learn how to have impactful conversations at the doors and engage our communities around the importance of voting. After the training, we’ll head out into the neighborhoods together to register voters and help ensure our voices are heard at the ballot box.
Lunch will be provided. No experience needed—just a commitment to building power for our people.
Black AF Study Group: Slavery & Capitalism
Join us for a dynamic and unapologetic deep dive into the roots and impact of African enslavement—told through the lens of African people themselves. This experience will trace the development of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, with a focus on the United States, while centering Africa’s resistance and the enduring struggle for freedom, self-determination, and the dismantling of colonial slave economies.
Grounded in historical truth and radical analysis, BAF will explore the political economy of slavery, the internal structures that upheld it, and the international systems of capitalism and colonialism that continue to shape our world today. We’ll uplift the stories of rebellion and resilience from Africa to the Americas, highlighting the power of the African working class and the unrelenting fight for liberation.
Participants will:
Gain foundational knowledge of the global forces that fueled European development and African destabilization.
Examine the international slave trade’s direct ties to capitalism and colonialism.
Explore historical patterns of resistance, unity, and transformation across the African diaspora.
Connect past struggles to present-day conditions and movements for Black liberation.
Learn historical tools of analysis to better interpret our past and shape our collective future.
Whether you’re a student, organizer, educator, or truth-seeker, BAF is a call to study, struggle, and reclaim our history with clarity and power.
Take Black the Vote: Kick Off
Voting is one of the most powerful tools we have to shape our communities and demand the change we deserve. Our people have always known that self-determination is the key to freedom. And we must advance our agenda for freedom by using all the tools at our disposal, including the ballot box, to increase our power. It’s more important than ever that our people are registered, informed, and ready to vote.
Join People’s Justice Project for a free, dynamic, in-person event, where you’ll learn how to have impactful conversations and engage our communities around the importance of voting. After the training, we’ll head out into the neighborhood together to register voters and help increase connections in the community.
Lunch will be provided. No experience needed—just a commitment to building power for our people.
At this event, you can expect to learn:
The History of Voting and Why It’s Important
Canvassing Best Practices and Roleplay
Voter Registration Best Practices
You will also have the opportunity to build community with organizations from around the state and the region!
Co-sponsors include: Black Voters Matter, Columbus Stand-up, Rewriting the Narrative, Showing Up for Racial Justice - Central Ohio Chapter.
Canvass for the People: Voter Registration Training + Community Action
Voting is one of the most powerful tools we have to shape our communities and demand the change we deserve. With critical local, state, and national elections on the horizon, it’s more important than ever that our people are registered, informed, and ready to vote.
Join People’s Justice Project for a free canvassing and voter registration training, where you’ll learn how to have impactful conversations at the doors and engage our communities around the importance of voting. After the training, we’ll head out into the neighborhoods together to register voters and help ensure our voices are heard at the ballot box.
Lunch will be provided. No experience needed—just a commitment to building power for our people.
Black AF Study Group: Slavery
Join us for a dynamic and unapologetic deep dive into the roots and impact of African enslavement—told through the lens of African people themselves. This experience will trace the development of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, with a focus on the United States, while centering Africa’s resistance and the enduring struggle for freedom, self-determination, and the dismantling of colonial slave economies.
Grounded in historical truth and radical analysis, BAF will explore the political economy of slavery, the internal structures that upheld it, and the international systems of capitalism and colonialism that continue to shape our world today. We’ll uplift the stories of rebellion and resilience from Africa to the Americas, highlighting the power of the African working class and the unrelenting fight for liberation.
Participants will:
Gain foundational knowledge of the global forces that fueled European development and African destabilization.
Examine the international slave trade’s direct ties to capitalism and colonialism.
Explore historical patterns of resistance, unity, and transformation across the African diaspora.
Connect past struggles to present-day conditions and movements for Black liberation.
Learn historical tools of analysis to better interpret our past and shape our collective future.
Whether you’re a student, organizer, educator, or truth-seeker, BAF is a call to study, struggle, and reclaim our history with clarity and power.
Black AF Study Group: The State & Its Relationship to the African Working Class
Join us for a dynamic and unapologetic deep dive into the roots and impact of African enslavement—told through the lens of African people themselves. This experience will trace the development of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, with a focus on the United States, while centering Africa’s resistance and the enduring struggle for freedom, self-determination, and the dismantling of colonial slave economies.
Grounded in historical truth and radical analysis, BAF will explore the political economy of slavery, the internal structures that upheld it, and the international systems of capitalism and colonialism that continue to shape our world today. We’ll uplift the stories of rebellion and resilience from Africa to the Americas, highlighting the power of the African working class and the unrelenting fight for liberation.
Participants will:
Gain foundational knowledge of the global forces that fueled European development and African destabilization.
Examine the international slave trade’s direct ties to capitalism and colonialism.
Explore historical patterns of resistance, unity, and transformation across the African diaspora.
Connect past struggles to present-day conditions and movements for Black liberation.
Learn historical tools of analysis to better interpret our past and shape our collective future.
Whether you’re a student, organizer, educator, or truth-seeker, BAF is a call to study, struggle, and reclaim our history with clarity and power.
Canvass for the People: Voter Registration Training + Community Action
Voting is one of the most powerful tools we have to shape our communities and demand the change we deserve. With critical local, state, and national elections on the horizon, it’s more important than ever that our people are registered, informed, and ready to vote.
Join People’s Justice Project for a free canvassing and voter registration training, where you’ll learn how to have impactful conversations at the doors and engage our communities around the importance of voting. After the training, we’ll head out into the neighborhoods together to register voters and help ensure our voices are heard at the ballot box.
Lunch will be provided. No experience needed—just a commitment to building power for our people.
Canvass for the People: Voter Registration Training + Community Action
Voting is one of the most powerful tools we have to shape our communities and demand the change we deserve. With critical local, state, and national elections on the horizon, it’s more important than ever that our people are registered, informed, and ready to vote.
Join People’s Justice Project for a free canvassing and voter registration training, where you’ll learn how to have impactful conversations at the doors and engage our communities around the importance of voting. After the training, we’ll head out into the neighborhoods together to register voters and help ensure our voices are heard at the ballot box.
Lunch will be provided. No experience needed—just a commitment to building power for our people.
Black AF Study Group
Join us for a dynamic and unapologetic deep dive into the roots and impact of African enslavement—told through the lens of African people themselves. This experience will trace the development of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, with a focus on the United States, while centering Africa’s resistance and the enduring struggle for freedom, self-determination, and the dismantling of colonial slave economies.
Grounded in historical truth and radical analysis, BAF will explore the political economy of slavery, the internal structures that upheld it, and the international systems of capitalism and colonialism that continue to shape our world today. We’ll uplift the stories of rebellion and resilience from Africa to the Americas, highlighting the power of the African working class and the unrelenting fight for liberation.
Participants will:
Gain foundational knowledge of the global forces that fueled European development and African destabilization.
Examine the international slave trade’s direct ties to capitalism and colonialism.
Explore historical patterns of resistance, unity, and transformation across the African diaspora.
Connect past struggles to present-day conditions and movements for Black liberation.
Learn historical tools of analysis to better interpret our past and shape our collective future.
Whether you’re a student, organizer, educator, or truth-seeker, BAF is a call to study, struggle, and reclaim our history with clarity and power.
Statewide Teach-In
The latest budget cuts from the Trump Administration will have devastating consequences for Black and Brown communities—widening wage gaps, worsening food insecurity, increasing evictions, and restricting access to healthcare. Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and housing assistance will only deepen these crises.
Join us for a statewide teach-in to discuss these policies, understand their impact, and strategize how we can organize and fight back. Our communities cannot afford these cuts—now is the time to take action.
Black AF Study Group
In this study group, we will be exploring why Slavery was imperative for the development of Capitalism. This session will be held in-person and virtually.
Virtual event details available after registration.
The Challenge of the Congo
Join PJP in collaboration with Friends of the Congo for a teach-in about the continued crisis in Congo. During this teach-in, you'll hear from the Friends of the Congo leadership team about their work and how to get involved in the global struggle for liberation.
VIRTUAL OPTION SOLD OUT! WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@peoplesjusticeproject
Research Program Meeting
People’s Justice Project (PJP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building Black power through grassroots organizing, advocacy, and research.
We’re launching a 7-month research program focused on policing, mass incarceration, and the criminal legal system in Columbus, Ohio. Participants will work alongside PJP organizers to investigate key issues, analyze policies, and develop a community resource that will live on our website—providing up-to-date information on policing and incarceration across Ohio.
Committment & Impact
This program will run for 7 months, requiring regular participation in research sessions, discussions, and strategy meetings. The work will culminate in a public-facing toolkit that will help inform and empower our communities.
Apply Today
This is an opportunity to contribute to real change. Join us in this critical research effort and be part of the movement for justice!
Spots are limited! Apply today.
Black AF Study Group
In this study group we will be exploring Political Economy, so that we can better understand the system that we are under. Join us on Friday, March 14th at 6pm to 7:30pm.
KYC Organizing 101 Training
We're excited to be in partnership with Kaleidoscope Youth Center for our next organizing training. This session will be held at KYC and is open to ages 12 - 20.
Power & Organizing 101
Come check out our NEW office and join us for a 1:1 Organizer Training!
Black AF Study Group
Join us for another Black AF Study Group! Base Squad Member Charles Abernathy will lead this Teach-In about Queerness and PIC Abolition.
Topic: The State: A Critique on Policing Part 3
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Google Meet (Details available upon registration)
*Check your email for reading materials in preparation for the meeting!
Black AF Study Group
Join us for another Black AF Study Group! Join us for a Teach-in on Marijuana Justice and how equitable legalization can become a gateway to dismantle the War on Drugs.
Topic: The State: A Critique on Policing Part 2
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Google Meet (Details available upon registration)
*Check your email for reading materials in preparation for the meeting!
How to Build Relational Power
Join us for a 1-on-1 training about how to build relational power through organizing on Sunday, January 19, 2025, from 7 pm to 9 pm.
Location:
Two Dollar Radio Headquarters
1124 Parsons Ave. Columbus, OH 43206
Register for this event below.
Community Conversation
Join us for a special Community Conversation in partnership with Two Dollar Headquarters. We will have candid conversations in a safe space about non-carceral programs and organizing in Columbus. Register below.
**Kitchen closes at 7:45pm
Black AF Study Group
Join us for a Black AF Study Group! This event will take place via Google Meet. Details will be shared with those who register below.
Topic: The State: A Critique on Policing Part 1
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Google Meet (Details available upon registration)
*Check your email for reading materials in preparation for the meeting!
Black AF Study Group
Join us for a Black AF Study Group! This event will take place via Google Meet. Details will be shared with those who register below.
Topic: Imperialism & Colonialism
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Google Meet (Details available upon registration)
*Check your email for reading materials in preparation for the meeting!
Black AF Study Group
Join us for a Black AF Study Group! This event will take place via Google Meet. Details will be shared with those who register below.
Topic: Slavery & Capitalism from the 15th - 19th Century
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Google Meet (Details available upon registration)
*Check your email for readings materials in preparation for the meeting!
Canvassing @ Church for All People
Want to get involved with PJP? Do you understand the importance of voting in the upcoming election? Are you interested in building community? Volunteer to join our canvassing team! Sign up below to join the squad at Church for All People on Wednesday, October 30th.