About Us
Our Story
The Long Beach Black Worker Center (LBBWC) is here to make change by shining the spotlight on discriminatory practices within laws, wages, career pathways, worker intimidation and the traumatic effects of bias in our community.
We are a community-centered group of individuals from all backgrounds within the Long Beach community, ensuring pathways and opportunities that are free of discrimination in the workplace to create stability, quality lifestyle and promotion for all.
Birthed out of the struggle and resilience of freedom fighting movements, the Long Beach Black Worker Center is a community-built organization that provides support, education and research for Black workers in Long Beach.
LBBWC organizes efforts to end discrimination in the workplace for workers by building Black Worker power, protecting Black Worker rights and addressing systemic anti-blackness in the workplace.
We are here to make change by shining the spotlight on discriminatory practices within laws, wages, career pathways and the traumatic effects of bias in our community.
The LBBWC empowers, connects and builds, acknowledging that everyone is a part of this conversation and that Black Lives Matter.
Our Mission
The Long Beach Black Worker Center (LBBWC) is dedicated to empowering Black workers by dismantling discriminatory practices in laws, wages and career pathways. We strive to create a healthy community where Black Worker Power thrives, ensuring justice, equity and wellness for all. Through support, education and advocacy, we build pathways to stable, quality employment that is free from intimidation and discrimination, fostering a prosperous and inclusive Long Beach.
Our Vision
We envision a Long Beach where Black workers are free from systemic anti-Blackness, intimidation and workplace discrimination, where our community is one and where every Black worker has access to equitable opportunities, fair wages and career advancement. By building Black Worker Power and promoting justice and equity, our objective is to create a future where all Black lives matter and thrive in a supportive, safe and inclusive work environment.
Our Core Values
Community
Power
Justice
Equity
Wellness
The Long Beach Black Worker Center (LBBWC) promotes worker rights, addresses opportunities for Black community members to tackle systemic anti-Blackness in the workforce, and provides tools for Black workers to organize around conditions that impact their lives.
Through community education, partnerships, resource development and resourcing, the LBBWC works together with the community to build Black worker power, raise political consciousness, and broaden family supportive career pathways and workplace protections for Black workers in Long Beach, CA.
Founded in 2023, the LB BWC is an initiative of Black Agency, and is fiscally sponsored by the National Food Chain Workers Alliance.
Racial Justice is Our Focus
Pathways are Key.
With racial justice in focus, the Long Beach Black Worker Center (LB BWC) aims to facilitate and develop direct pathways for Black workers to access good-paying jobs and establish a more prosperous economic future for our communities. We aim to secure quality jobs for Black workers in our community, specifically in the public sector, creating direct pathways for Black Long Beach area residents.
We Believe All Black Lives Matter.
We value equity and inclusion. We focus our efforts in Long Beach, CA and serve a diverse array of Black community members including women, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, youth, and formerly incarcerated individuals.
Partner with us
We work hand in hand with community partners to create institutional pathways to careers for Black workers. We are looking to partner with public employers, unions, and public officials to determine opportunities to address the needs of Black workers and to create pathways to employment. Contact us to discuss how we can collaborate.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
— F. Douglass