Ways to Help the BLACK LIVES MATTER Movement

• Places to Donate

• Nationwide Bail Funds - https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd
• Black Lives Matter - https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019
• Support the National Police Accountability Project - https://www.nlg-npap.org/
• Campaign Zero - https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision
• Reclaim the Block - https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/
• Black Visions Collective - https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
• Official George Floyd Memorial Fund - https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd 
• Minnesota Freedom Fund - https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/
• Minneapolis Protest Fund - https://www.gofundme.com/f/minneapolis-protest-support?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link-tip
• Official Gianna Floyd (George Floyd’s daughter) Fund - https://www.gofundme.com/f/gianna-floyd-daughter-of-george-floyd-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link-tip
• Justice for Breonna Taylor - https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link-tip

• Sign a Petition

• Justice for George Floyd - https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd?recruiter=1096617288&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi&recruited_by_id=2943f820-a174-11ea-b563-a538d17ee3bd
• Justice for Breonna Taylor - https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_22077589_en-US%3Av4&recruiter=892197411&recruited_by_id=bb347bf0-97f9-11e8-8735-21007a024821&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi
• Justice for Emerald Black - https://www.change.org/p/san-leandro-police-deartment-justice-for-emerald-black?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_22489900_en-US%3Av3&recruiter=892197411&recruited_by_id=bb347bf0-97f9-11e8-8735-21007a024821&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi
• Hands Up Act - https://www.change.org/p/us-senate-hands-up-act?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_14077526_en-US%3Av2&recruiter=892197411&recruited_by_id=bb347bf0-97f9-11e8-8735-21007a024821&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uAFbO1gAAAAAAXtjOpXl6owQ3NzJmNWNmNg%3D%3D
• Color of Change - https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justiceforfloyd_george_floyd_minneapolis

• Donation Livestream

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NokTSpMH44A
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCgLa25fDHM

• Free Ways to Support Black Folks in your Day to Day Life

• LISTEN to Black people. Believe Black people. Don’t be dismissive when you start to feel uncomfortable
• VOTE for candidates that support Black people and communities
• Intentionally diversify your circle of friends
• Intentionally diversity your media input (movies, TV, books, music, etc.)
• Support Black endeavors (businesses, entertainment, etc.)
• Stop letting your friends sing the N-word
• Hold your friends and family accountable
• Learn what microaggressions are and take steps to stop using them
• Use your privilege and influence to make your spaces more racially inclusive
• Educate yourself on black history beyond what you learned in high school
• Be brutally honest with yourself and unlearn your internalized racism and encourage others to do the same
• Please do your own research

• Books I personally recommend (fiction and nonfiction)

• Non Fiction

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Conversations in Black by Ed Gordon
• They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Aburraqib
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Fiction

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
• Full Disclosure by Cameron Garrett
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
• The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
• The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon
• Black Enough by Ibi Zoboi (an anthology)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas