Black Lives Matter Sacramento has purchased a plot of land to build their first-ever home in. Once its built the plan is to turn the building into a resource center and safe space for the Black community. Tanya Faison, the founder of the local Black Lives Matter chapter told ABC 10 she’s excited about building the resource center. Faison is working to make sustainable change in the Black community.

“We see a lot of performative gestures from the city and the county to where we’re not seeing actual change, it just looks like change, and I’m just sick of seeing that, I’m sick of experiencing that, I want to see actual change,” Faison said. After the murder of George Floyd last year led to the chapter receiving an outpouring of unsolicited donations. Since then Sacramento homicide numbers started to rise.

“There started being a string of killings throughout Sacramento, intracommunity violence,” Faison said. “So at that point, we want wanted to start impacting the community in a way that provides resources to the community.”

The space could hold things like community events, workshops, therapy and culturally competent legal clinics.

“We want to do different things in the community that bring community together but also like make real changes to where community is relying on itself or each other, instead of relying on the city or the county for band-aids, we need to actually build what we need and we need to build the change that we want to see,” Faison said.

“I think it’s vital, I think it’s so needed, I think it’s so needed for us to have spaces where resources come through where we get what we need and we have what we need so that we don’t have to resort to anything else for what we need,” Faison added.