After the release of "Disability Solidarity: Completing the 'Vision for Black Lives'" the Movement for Black Lives updated their vision statement to use the term disability instead of "differently-abled" and to include disability across four of the six policy statements. This new statement noted how Black disabled individuals are more likely to be profiled by the police, experience poverty, and are disproportionately impacted by racial violence in health care and voter disenfranchisement.

Response to "Disability Solidarity: Completing the 'Vision for Black Lives'"

The work of the Harriet Tubman Collective did not just end with "Disability Solidarity: Completing the 'Vision for Black Lives'", rather the HTC went on to create additional statements in 2017, 2018, and 2019 that address racism and racist exploitation by white mainstream disability rights organizations.

Further Works by the Harriet Tubman Collective

"Disability Solidarity: Completing the 'Vision for Black Lives'" highlighted the erasure of disability, and larger problems with ableism and audism in the Movement for Black Lives. The Harriet Tubman collective asserted that no successful movement has existed without disabled people's leadership. The statement ended with a list of names of Black Disabled/Deaf victims of police brutality and was signed by seventeen Black Disability cultural workers. 

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The Harriet Tubman Collective was formed after on August 1, 2016 the Movement for Black Lives released the vision statement "A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom, and Justice." This policy plan included demands for reparations, economic justice, prison abolition, healthcare, an end to state violence, and so much more. The vision statement named groups that were considered the most marginalized Black people. Disabled people were only mentioned as "differently abled." This lead Black disability activists from the United States and Canada to organize the Harriet Tubman Collective which released a response statement "Disability Solidarity: Completing the 'Vision for Black Lives'" on September 7, 2016. 

The Harriet Tubman Collective

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

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