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"Community is an overused word, but somehow, like the word love, you know it's real when you feel it."
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Has GirlTREK made a difference in your life?
Whether you have a story of transformation, a moment of joy, words of encouragement, or ideas for where we go next, we want to hear it all. Your experiences help shape the future of this movement. Please take a few minutes to complete our Member Impact Survey.
A few minutes — and it matters. Your answers help shape where we go next, sharpen how we serve, and measure our impact — and they secure the resources to keep this movement standing for generations to come. |
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This weekend, America celebrated its 250th birthday, we're remembering the women whose stories are too often left out of the celebration. Black women have always been architects of freedom—through our love, labor, sacrifice, organizing, caregiving, and unwavering belief in a better future. Across all 50 states, our footsteps have carried this nation forward, even when history failed to tell the whole story.
For more than a decade, GirlTREK has been helping tell a fuller story—one written with our feet. Every walk is a declaration that our health matters, our history matters, and our future matters
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In Atlanta, it looked like celebrating 43 years of the Black Women's Health Imperative with a community walk — mothers walking beside daughters, women who'd been with us for years welcoming first-timers on their very first walk.
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In Denver, it looked like more than fifty women showing up to a park on a Thursday evening — no festival, no celebrity, just the promise that other Black women would be there. It looked like a mother who once learned of her son's passing while out on a walk, now taking those same steps back to herself. It looked like Maya, who walks because her mother taught her that health, like faith, gets handed down — now building a career in wellness. |
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In Aurora, it looked like a Strength in the City walk that brought women together from across Illinois
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And there was even more to celebrate. Across the country — from Mississippi to California to New Orleans — Black women showed up for themselves and one another, documenting the movement one photo, one testimony, and one walk at a time. Inside The Underground, now more than 12,000 women strong, sisters logged walks, earned badges, and kept their walking streaks going.
And we are just getting started.
If this is what the movement looks like right now — and it feels like a place you want to be — then don't just read about the next walk. Be there.
This July, we're partnering again with our friends at the NBA and WNBA — this time for the WNBA All-Star Weekend in Chicago, where we'll host an epic walk through Jackson Park.
So if you haven't gotten to enjoy Summertime Chi yet and you're wondering how you'll get your groove back this summer, or if you're not in the area but could use a good old-fashioned girls' weekend — then pull up.
Join Us for WNBA All-Star Weekend!
Bring your daughter, your mama, your best friend. Or just bring yourself.
A time will be had.
In sisterhood,
GirlTREK
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HAVE YOU DOWNLOADED THE UNDERGROUND?
GirlTREK's new app is our digital home — built so that no woman ever walks alone.
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