Schalk uses the  phrase Contemporary Black Disability Political Praxis to describe  the work and political outlook offered by Black disabled cultural workers engaging in Black Disability Politics. Schalk identified some key tactics of Contemporary Black Disability Political Praxis as:
1. Not just claiming Black disability identity and encouraging disability identification within Black communities but also going back and claiming Black disability history and highlighting and connecting organizing work to a history and legacy of Black disabled community organizing.
2. An understanding of intersectionality that places racism not being a more preeminent system of oppression than ableism, but instead understanding racism and ableism and intertwined and mutually constructing.
3. Engaging with and situating themselves as a part of the tradition of Black feminist politics, including pulling earlier Black feminist tactics like centering those who are most impacted by oppression.

Contemporary Black Disability Political Praxis

Schalk argues that Black disabled cultural workers are growing and improving Black disability politics and that this growth in turn in changing how we mobilize outside of just Black disability politics work. 

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(1) boldly stating one's own Black disability identity and encouraging claiming of disability identity among Black public leaders
(2) creating new language and spaces away from mainstream White disability movements for Black disabled people to develop their own relationship to disability in all its facets
(3) not requiring individuals to use the word disability to describe themselves in order to participate in or receive support from Black disability cultural work.

Schalk's Framing of How Contemporary Black Disabled Cultural Workers Work Towards Broader Black Disabled Identity

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

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

Black Disability Politics

Schalk notes that while the NBWHP engaged heavily in the third tactic of not requiring individuals to use the word disability to describe themselves in order to participate in or receive support from Black disability cultural work that the NBWHP could have done more to engage in the first two tactics - for instance the NBWHP could have further encouraged members with HIV/AIDS chronic illness and psychiatric disabilities to understand themselves as disabled and the legal protections that come with that understanding. 

Comparing Contemporary Tactics to the Work of the NBWHP

Schalk brings up as an example of how contemporary Black Disability Cultural Workers are confronting the exclusion of Black Disabled people from broader Black movement spaces the Harriet Tubman Collective.

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