In 2003, Salamishah co-founded A Long Walk Home, a Chicago-based non-profit that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women.

Her name, Salamishah, combines "salaam", the Arabic word for peace; "mi", her parents' interpretation of black; and "shah", a Persian royal title.

Tillet's courses included Family Feuds: Beyonce, Jay-Z, and Solange and the Meaning of American Music, No Bench By the Road: Monuments, Memory, and the Afterlife of Slavery, "Where My Girls At?

In 2003, Salamishah and her sister Scheherazade Tillet co-founded A Long Walk Home (ALWH), a Chicago-based nonprofit that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women.

Through its programs, multimedia performances and college workshops, ALWH has educated survivors and activists to build safe communities and eliminate gender violence.

A Long Walk Home works with artists, students, activists, therapists, community organizations, and cultural institutions to elevate marginalized voices, facilitate healing, and activate social change.

[citation needed] Twenty years before #MeToo, A Long Walk Home emerged as a leading organization in the United States using black feminist justice approaches to combat gender violence and racism.

That next year, while enrolled in her first social documentary photography class, Scheherazade asked Salamishah if she could document Tillet's healing journey, which included the reclamation of her sexuality, spirituality, and body.

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem described SOARS as "a gift that beautifully blends art, policy, and grassroots organizing to empower our most vulnerable and voiceless Americans."

[citation needed] In 2009, A Long Walk Home launched Girl/Friends, a youth-centered leadership program that amplifies the voices and creative visions of girls and women of color.

It was inspired by poet and activist Amiri Baraka's 1968 film The NEW-ARK and concerns racial justice education, urban public theater, and political consciousness-raising in Newark.

[citation needed] A Call to Peace includes four temporary prototype monuments by artists Manuel Acevedo, Chakaia Booker, Sonya Clark, and Jamel Shabazz, who each responded to the exhibition's central question.

The artists' projects respectively focus on underrepresented veterans, engaging the legacies of the Confederate statues, and addressing the relationship between public spaces and historical memory.

The book examines how contemporary African American artists and writers use slavery as a metaphor for their feelings of exclusion and estrangement in the United States.

Valerie Smith, President of Swarthmore College, notes, "This book will transform the way we think about the place of African American cultural production in relation to 'post-civil right era' political discourse.

[12] She has also produced chapters and articles including, "'I Got No Comfort in This Life': The Increasing Importance of Patsey in 12 Years a Slave", for American Literary History,[13] "Elle Perez: On Feminism" for a special issue of Aperture magazine,[14] and "'You Want to Be Well?

Tillet has interviewed Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rhimes, Spike Lee, Kerry Washington, Ava DuVernay, Solange Knowles, Michael B. Jordan, and Suzan Lori-Parks.

[citation needed] Tillet is a cultural critic who has written for a number of publications including "Solange: The Messenger" for Elle magazine, "'Black Panther': Why Not Queen Shuri?"