The Black Metropolis Research Consortium has project specific partnerships with the following organizations:
- AACM — Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Chicago Defender
- Chicago Film Archives
- Community Film Workshop of Chicago
- DePaul University
- DuSable Museum of African American History
- eta Creative Arts
- Field Museum Library
- Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
- Kartemquin Films
- Little Black Pearl
- Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago
- Newberry Library
- The Vivian G. Harsh Society