Key Terms
The person/people who have the power to give us what we want
Target
The 2 people who founded the Black Panther Party
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
The 1869 date that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free – over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation
June 19, Juneteenth
The 2018 Marvel film that became a cultural phenomenon for its Afrofuturist vision of the fictional nation of Wakanda
Black Panther
The name of YFJCo’s 12-month youth organizing fellowship
Block x Block
This term describes a political vision aimed at ending prisons, policing, and surveillance for good
Abolition / PIC Abolition
The revolutionary leader who was murdered in 1971 after spending over a decade in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, for being accused of a $70 robbery
George Jackson
The person who gave an infamous speech in Washington, DC on August 28, 1963?
MLK
The 2025 Ryan Coogler film that blends the Jim Crow South with vampire horror
Sinners
The name of the magazine YFJCo just released
No Kids In Prison Magazine
The process of building organizations of people with similar interests who use their collective power to win immediate improvements in people’s lives and alter relationships of power
Organizing
The revolutionary leader who was assassinated at the age of 21 during a police raid in 1969
Fred Hampton
The group that started as a youth gang in Chicago in 1959, but then transformed into a revolutionary civil rights organization
The Young Lords
The Beyoncé song, featuring Kendrick Lamar, that closes her "Lemonade" album with themes of liberation and legacy
Freedom
This Youth First network member is the champion of almost all of our games
Marquetta from Progeny, KS
The coordinated actions we take throughout the course of our campaign that aligns with our strategies
Tactics
The student-led organization that played a major role in the 1964 Freedom Summer
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The year YFJCo, previously known as the Youth First Initiative, was founded
2015
Movie that was screened during our Liberation Summer movie screening event
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
This card game, known for its intense competitiveness, is a YFJCo staple
Spades
This key campaign component is how you develop people from your base into members and then leaders
Leadership pipeline or Leadership ladder
A youth activist who, at the age of 15, refused to give up their bus seat to a white passenger, 9 months before Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin
The state and year that the first U.S. youth prison was built in
1825 in New York
The artist who released a happy birthday song as an anthem to campaign for MLK Jr’s birthday to become a U.S. federal holiday
Stevie Wonder
The 4 current Youth Leadership Advisory Board members
Elle, Jordy, Antonio, and Darla