Melanin MeetUps

A think platform for our future.

Explore our platform. Shape the future.

Melanin MeetUps is a think platform where Black Americans meet to shape Black America’s narrative in the 21st century and beyond.

Intimate spaces to heal, connect and develop initiatives to move us forward. Shape the future here.

Melanin MeetUps are virtual spaces to connect, create initiatives, and build our future. Find out more and join us at our next MeetUp.

Illuminate are talks that aim to shape the African-American experience for opportunity and solution. Watch one here.

Illuminate are powerful talks that center the African-American narrative and experience for global ideation. Watch one or register for our next event.

Featured in The Washington Post, The Better Together Project is a groundbreaking initiative to better memorialize the African American experience that was developed at a Melanin MeetUp. Join this diverse community and shape the future.

Our blog that profiles leading luminaries of the day while creating new schools of thought around the AA experience meant to inspire everyone. Read one here.

The Narrative is Melanin MeetUps’ blog on research, culture, and thought around the African-American experience. Read one and get caught up.

Data inspires advocacy and influences direction. Find out where we’re headed.

Know what it means to Rewrite The Narrative. Find out what we advocate for and get involved.

Meet the newest symbol for African-Americans and the Black Diaspora developed at MeetUp.

Developed at a Melanin MeetUp, meet the newest symbol for African-Americans and the Black Diaspora. Purchase our pin and connect with us.

 
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In the 22nd century, we are doctors, lawyers, scientists, executives, entrepreneurs, actors, politicians, nutritionists, students, managers, athletes, writers, influencers and various other young Black Americans passionate about shaping our future connecting through a Melanin MeetUp.



This is our narrative and it’s always evolving.

Here’s how it started in the 21st century.

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