Our Story

 

“There's a ship
The Black Freighter
With a skull on it's masthead
Will be coming in”

— Nina Simone, Pirate Jenny

Mission:

Black Freighter Press publishes revolutionary books. 

We are committed to the exploration of liberation, using art to transform consciousness.  A platform for Black and Brown writers to honor ancestry and propel radical imagination. 

WHEN WE EXHALE 🍃 Ayodele ‘WordSlanger’ Nzinga, MFA, Ph.D. is a multi-disciplined artist, community advocate, arts educator, and cultural architect invested in designing structures for cultural production. Working at the intersections of
WHEN WE EXHALE 🍃 Julia Mallory (@thejuliamallory) is a creative working in a range of medium from text to textiles. She is a six-time author, including two children’s books. Her latest book Survivor's Guilt, is an archive of survivorship that
WHEN WE EXHALE 🍃 Oakland-born, Richmond raised, CieraJevae serves her community as an artist-educator, healer, writer, editor, activist, community advocate, and scholar. She is the published author of her collection of poems, Unto Ivy's Rib, as wel

Vision:

We aim to create a world where the collective determines cultural reality.