1. This is a moment of rapacious transnational capital, of intense privatization and the global exploitation of human and material resources. The Black worlds of the U.S., Africa and the African Diaspora are in the vortex of these realities, facing intense economic, political, and cultural vulnerability.

2. It is a moment in which wealth is extremely concentrated within the U.S. and globally. The rich, indeed, have gotten much richer. It is also a moment of complicated racial/ethnic realities and gender divides. The immigration issue looms large in the context of the need to build alliances.

3. It is also a moment of talk-speak, act up, youth in resistance- youth and not so young taking to the streets: Atlanta, GA for the first ever USSF, fighting for Katrina survivors and the right to return, confronting the murder of Sean Bell and the police face of state terrorism, facing new images of nooses. Indeed, tens of thousands demand redress, accountability. How to make common cause with the newly mobilized yet participate in deeper level movement building must be on the BRC radar.

4. It is a gendered moment - with Black women and women all over the world too often exploited and impoverished - the U.S. no exception. These global realities have different gendered consequences for men and women. Nonetheless if we lift up women, women are taking charge, claiming leadership and organizing for social change. We represent a tidewater of movement building possibilities. Thus the next decade of the BRC demands nothing less than a reaffirmation of our radical Black feminist roots, actually building radical Black feminist sensibilities within our communities. This is an imperative but unfinished agenda.

1. Reassessing leadership within the organization and taking seriously the push for decentralized models (popular in youth organizing) that have not sought to invest a lot of leadership responsibility in a few key individuals is key.

2. Strengthening the on-line innovations the BRC pioneered with internet organizing, but stepping up even more to the use of the internet to inform publicize, mobilize, and analyze, to complement but not replace face to face organizing is required.

3. Building a new commitment to the arts and creative action as well as popular and political education are in order. These have been missing pieces in the work of the BRC during the past decade.

4. Giving visibility to the environment in our political work must be considered. Indeed, a new generation of younger Black activists has introduced important discourses and actions on the environment and the consequences of environmental racism for our people. Van Jones and the work of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland come to mind as does Majora Carter’s work with Sustainable South Bronx in N.Y. This environmental issue was never fully vetted in the formation of the BRC. The next 10 years will demand it.