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    • Home
    • About
    • Activities
    • What Makes us Different
    • Impactful Moments
    • Need for a Youth Movement
    • Contact
    • Help Our Cause
    • Worksheets
    • Application
    • Assitant Goal Achiever
    • Parent Collective
    • FREE SHAKA SHAKUR!
    • Hear Her Voice Blog
  • Home
  • About
  • Activities
  • What Makes us Different
  • Impactful Moments
  • Need for a Youth Movement
  • Contact
  • Help Our Cause
  • Worksheets
  • Application
  • Assitant Goal Achiever
  • Parent Collective
  • FREE SHAKA SHAKUR!
  • Hear Her Voice Blog

About SLANG

Background and History

SLANG (Struggling, Living, and Never Giving

up) was founded in 2005 when a group of

youth community activist, Maurice

Robinson, Tyquilla Smith, and Eugene Beard

led protests against youth violence,

oppression, and all other ills that plague

people around the world. In 2009, SLANG

eventually evolved into a school club at the

downtown campus of J. Sargeant Reynolds

Community College providing youth advocacy

activities for K-12 students in the Richmond

City Public School system.

Empowering Our Youth Through Cultural Awareness

Our Mission

To assist youth to become culturally aware, self-motivated, and educated in learning a skill related to their passions.

Our Goal

  • Expanding African history and cultural programs


  • Helping youth move toward success


  • Provide caring individuals who will develop trusting relationships with youth


  • Help youth connect passions with a skill


  • Increase financial literacy among youth


  • Increase discipline and youth’s respect for elders & peers.

Our Vision

Provide a cultural awareness curriculum, hygiene kits, community resources, and education on connecting passions to economic means. 


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