Milk & Melanin Festival 2025

Welcome to Milk & Melanin Festival 2025! Join us at the South Side Sanctuary for a vibrant celebration that honors, uplifts, and centers the breastfeeding journeys of Black families. It marks the start of Black Breastfeeding Week with a joyful, empowering space that blends culture, community, and care. Through storytelling, support, education, and celebration, the festival strengthens connections, normalizes breastfeeding in the Black community, and builds a legacy of wellness and empowerment.

This event will:

• Uplift the community by honoring Black motherhood, acknowledging cultural strengths, and celebrating breastfeeding as a radical act of health and heritage.
• Engage residents through culturally relevant programming: live music, local vendors, storytelling, lactation education, panel discussions, and wellness activities for the whole family.
• Serve by connecting families to lactation consultants, doulas, healthcare providers, and mutual aid resources—many based on the South Side.

By entering this event, you acknowledge and consent that photography, audio, and video recording may occur. By your presence, you grant the event organizers full rights to use and reproduce any images, likenesses, or recordings captured at the event for promotional purposes without further notice, compensation, or approval. If you do not wish to be photographed or recorded, please inform the event staff or the photographer/videographer directly.

Host or Publisher Black Midwifery Collective