The Black Girl Project  is a growing movement that began as a film by Aiesha Turman, an educator and a filmmaker, amongst many other things. The film is a work of immense love that took her, and her small media company nearly three years to complete. Once completed, Aiesha realized that The Black Girl Project was much more than a film, but could be built into something more, so she received fiscal sponsorship from the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization in order to do more work surrounding the Black Girl Project, and thus, the BGP.org was born.

Every day, popular media bombards Black females with the same old one-dimensional stereotypes failing to to be invested in presenting more complex personas. Their most visible form of cultural expression, music, tells them that it is OK to be objectified, and subjected to sexist idealogy and behavior.

We show and tell them that, through all that we do, that they are, indeed, their own project, and that they have the emotional and intellectual capacities to create the lives they desire and deserve.