Black Lives Matter

Resources for Equity, Justice, and Advocacy for Black Lives.

Created by Lyndsay Archer, @lyndsay.archer

Table of Contents

Nonprofit Organizations/Grassroots Initiatives for Criminal Justice        2

Please Click Here for a List of Petitions        3

Mental Health/Wellness Platforms        3

Knowledge is Power.        3

Websites/Articles        3

Articles on Black Women Experiences & Injustices        4

Articles on Black Youth Experiences & Injustices        4

Articles on Black Immigrant Experiences & Injustices        4

Articles on Black LGBTQ Experiences & Injustices        4

Documentaries/Film.        4

Books & Writings.        5

Books for Children & Young Adults by Black Authors        7

Black Lives Matter

Resources for Equity, Justice, and Advocacy for Black Lives.

Created by Lyndsay Archer, @lyndsay.archer

Nonprofit Organizations/Grassroots Initiatives for Criminal Justice

1. The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
2. The Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/ (no longer accepting donations)
3. Reclaim the Block: https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/ 
4. The Detroit Justice Center: https://www.detroitjustice.org/
5. Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com/
6. Black Visions Collective: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/ (no longer accepting donations)
7. The Legal Rights Center: https://www.legalrightscenter.org/
8. American Civil Liberties Union: https://www.aclu.org/
9. Black Alliance for Just Immigration: https://baji.org/
10. The Movement for Black Lives: https://m4bl.org/
11. Black Women’s Blueprint: https://www.blackwomensblueprint.org/
12. Black Youth Project 100: https://www.byp100.org/
13. UndocuBlack Network: https://undocublack.org/
14. Equal Justice Initiative: https://eji.org/
15. #FreeBlackMamas National Bail Out: http://nationalbailout.org/
16. The National Action Network: https://nationalactionnetwork.net/
17. The Northstar Health Collective: https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/ (no longer accepting donations)
18. The National Police Accountability Project: https://www.nlg-npap.org/donate/
19. Communities United Against Police Brutality: https://www.cuapb.org/
20. Black Alliance for Just Immigration: https://baji.org/ 
21. The Colin Kaepernick Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Initiative: https://www.knowyourrightscamp.com/legal
22. Freedom March NYC: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-freedom-march 

Please Click Here for a List of Petitions

Mental Health/Wellness Platforms

(the following have equally empowering websites & Instagram platforms. Please check them out.)

1. Evolving Still 
2. The Sisters’ Couch
3. Therapy for Black Girls
4. Therapy for Black Men
5. Mental Matters Podcast
6. Supporting Black LGBTQ Youth Mental Health - The Trevor Project
7. Black Male Mental Health
8. Inclusive Therapists
9. Loveland Foundation 
10. Black Emotional and Mental Health (BEAM) Virtual Therapist Network
11. Melanin & Mental Health
12. Sista Afya Community Mental Wellness

Knowledge is Power.

a collection of articles, documentaries, films, and books for all ages.

Websites/Articles

1. The 1619 Project
2. Changing How Race Is Portrayed In Medical Education
3. Equal Treatment (a great platform that provides a digital means of providing healthcare professionals with medical education modules regarding race and medicine)
4. Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Ibram X. Kendi
5. If You Are Black and in a Mental Health Crisis, 911 Can Be a Death Sentence 

Articles on Black Women Experiences & Injustices

1. How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace
2. Racism and Sexism Combine to Shortchange Working Black Women
3. Breaking the Silence: The Voices of Black Women and the Path Towards Liberation
4. How Our Healthcare System Treats Black Mothers Differently
5. Implicit Bias and Racial Disparities in Health Care
6. Toward an Understanding of the ‘Medical Plantation’ as a Cultural Location of Disability
7. Roles of Black Women and Girls in Education: A Historical Reflection
8. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
9. The Violent State: Black Women’s Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence
10. Black Women’s Maternal Health

Articles on Black Youth Experiences & Injustices

11. Daily Multidimensional Racial Discrimination Among Black U.S. American Adolescents
12. The Criminalization of Black Youth in the Classroom
13. The Essence of Innocence: Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children
14. Black Girls Matter
15. Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood
16. The Black Girl Pushout

Articles on Black Immigrant Experiences & Injustices

17. Being Black (and) Immigrant Students: When Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity Collide
18. Black Immigrants: The Forgotten Immigrant Narrative
19. The Prison-to-Deportation Pipeline for Black Immigrants
20. The ‘Double Punishment’ for Black Undocumented Immigrants
21. Black Immigrant History is Part of Black History Month 
22. The State of Black Immigrants

Articles on Black LGBTQ Experiences & Injustices

1. Black LGBTQ Youth Mental Health
2. Understanding and Addressing the Social Determinants of Health for Black LGBTQ People: A Way Forward for Health Centers
3. Being African American & LGBTQ: An Introduction
4. Black Trans Women & Black Trans Femmes: Leading and Living Fiercely 
5. Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey

Documentaries/Film.

1. I am Not Your Negro
2. 13th
3. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
4. The Black Power Mixtape
5. Just Mercy
6. If Beale Street Could Talk
7. What Happened Miss Simone?
8. LA 92
9. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
10. Freedom Summer: Summer 1964
11. The Untold Story of Emmett Till
12. The Central Park Five
13. The Uncomfortable Truth
14. Two Black Men a Week
15. When They See Us
16. The Story of Marcus Garvey: A Documentary
17. Dark Girls
18. Slavery By Another Name
19. King in the Wilderness
20. American Son
21. Malcolm X
22. Do The Right Thing
23. Mrs. America (a miniseries on Shirley Chisholm)
24. Home Team History (Youtube Channel)
25. Deconstructing White Privilege
26. The Problem with Race-Based Medicine (TEDTalk about medical inequalities & disparities for underserved and marginalized groups)
27. We Need to Talk About an Injustice (TEDTalk by Bryan Stevenson)
28. The Dangers of Whitewashing Black History (TEDTalk by David Ikard)
29. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools 
30. Marcus Garvey: A Giant of Black Politics
31. Chisholm ‘72: Unbought and Unbossed

Books & Writings.

1. Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power In the 20th Century by Rhonda Y. Williams
2. Black Rage by Drs. Price M. Cobbs & William H. Grier
3. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
4. Let Nobody Turn Us Around by Marable & Mullings
5. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to WWII by Douglas A. Blackmon
6. Creating Their Own Image by Lisa Farrington
7. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
8. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
9. Life Upon These Shores by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
10. Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
11. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
12. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
13. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
14. If Beale Street Could Talk  by James Baldwin
15. Black Boy by Richard Wright
16. Native Son by Richard Wright
17. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
18. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
19. Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
20. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B DuBois
21. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X & Alex Haley
22. Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
25. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
26. Ain't I A Woman? by Bell Hooks
27. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
28. Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey
29. Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader by Clayborne Carson
30. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
31. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
32. A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry
33. An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
34. A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet Washington
35. Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
36. How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
37. Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
38. Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
39. So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo
40. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in The Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
41. Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore

Books for Children & Young Adults by Black Authors

1. Sasha Savvy Loves to Code by Sasha Ariel Alston
2. Henry’s Going to an HBCU by Kyle McMurtry
3. Kindred by Octavia Butler
4. The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
5. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
6. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
7. Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
8. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
9. Daddy Calls Me Man by Angela Johnson
10. Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker by Kathryn Lasky
11. Seven Spools of Thread by Angela Shelf Medearis
12. Don’t Touch My Hair by Sharee Miller
13. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
14. Dear Martin by Nic Stone
15. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
16. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
17. Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (sci-fi/historical fiction)
18. Monster by Walter Dean Myers
19. The March Trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Illustrator)
20. How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
21. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
22. Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
23. We March by Shane W. Evans
24. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
25. A is For Activist by Innosanto Nagara
26. Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
27. Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña
28. I Am Enough by Grace Byers
29. Islandborn by Junot Diaz
30. The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
31. Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
32. We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Y. Levinson
33. Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
34. Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell
35. Fly, Doctor, Fly! by Lyndsay Archer (coming in July)
36. This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew 
37. The Doctor With An Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath by Julia Finley Mosca
38. Riley Can Be Anything! by Davina Hamilton
39. Girls for Medicine by Orezime A. Uyeh
40. Bailey’s First Pair of Glasses by Melisa Philogene

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