Christine Alcindor will create "The Beauty of Black Life" - a set of two portable murals that represent being Black in America. The murals will be painted on wooden panels that can move to any location. Both murals shed light on the Black experience, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the beauty of being Black.

Mila Fields-Zayas will create a mural based on responses she receives from questions asked of BIPOC women around communites where we are taught that we are less than. This will include Mila filming the process and creating a documentary of the work as she creates the art and includes clips from community members themselves.

Silvina Ibañez will create "The Paper Theater Project," a collaborative opportunity for the Latinx community to make everyday micro-stories visible. The project aims to create a space of radical imagination and expression, giving a voice to those who need to be heard.

Mariona Lloreta's short experimental film“Altars” will highlight the Black and brown men in her neighborhood. The film negotiates a space between darkness - dehumanization, erasure, violence and trauma - and light - life, truth, empowerment, love.

Nate McLean-Nichols' series will feature local artists rapping and singing about their experiences with racial injustice as it pertains to various institutions.

S's work will collaboratively expand on previous media work centering the narratives of formerly incarcerated people, to bring forth critical issues in the American criminal legal system.

Through their project, Micah x Ireon imagine the podcast form as a medium to create, record, and share the oral histories of the RIRJ grant.

Leonard Tshitenge will create "Black Fathers Are Sleeping with One Eye Open," a creative arts experience that is animated, interactive, and connects spoken word, expressive writing, and multidisciplinary arts.

Aggrey Twinomugisha's project "Just Beyond Your Self" will make and distribute free re-useable face masks/covers to the homeless community of Boston through ground street outreach.

Irischa's project "Medicina For The People" is a vision that dreams of providing herbal medicine and aromatherapy to Black, Indigenous, and people of color who in direct and indirect ways are fighting at the front lines of injustices and anti-oppression