#blacklivesmatter library, teaching, activism, and community resource list
Compiled and published by Que(e)ry
As of July 8, 2025, this resource list is no longer actively maintained; it was moved to:
https://sites.google.com/site/librariesresist/info/specific-communities/blacklivesmatter
Short link: http://bit.ly/BLMresources
Table of Contents:
Syllabi/Curricula/Reading Lists
Children’s/Young Adult Booklists
Library, Archival, Museum, and Online Collections
#BlackLivesMatter in Libraries and Archives
Activism and Advocacy Organizations
Self-Care, Trauma, and Tragedy
Police Violence, Arrests, Protests, etc.: Rights, Safety, and Documenting
Media, Bias, and Fact-Checking Resources
Government, Civic, & Business Resources
Social Media accounts and hashtags
Introductory Information
- About Black Lives Matter
- Black Lives Matter #herstory
- Movement for Black Lives
- Letters for Black Lives project
- Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter (TED Talks, 2016. 16 min.)
- Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Haymarket Books, 2016.
- Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
- Anti-Racism Project: List of Resources
- Anti-Racism Resources for White People (Google Doc)
- Shutack, Corrine. “75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice.” Medium, 13 August, 2017.
- Guide to Allyship
- Talking about Race (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
- White Ally Toolkit
Bibliographies/Syllabi/Curricula/Reading Lists
- Black Disabled Woman Syllabus
- Black Feminism Syllabus
- Black Panthers Syllabus
- Baltimore Syllabus
- Charleston Syllabus
- Charlottesville Resource List
- Charlottesville Syllabus
- Ferguson Syllabus
- Institutionalized Racism Syllabus
- Juneteenth Syllabus (by Jasmin C. Howard and Kenja McCray)
- Lemonade Syllabus
- Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves (.PDF of Google doc from 2016)
- Trump Syllabus 2.0
- White Supremacy in the Age of Trump Syllabus (Loretta J. Ross, Smith College)
- Black Lives Matter Nashville: Bibliography for the Revolution
- Black Lives Matter Reading List (Left Bank Books)
- Black Lives Matter Reading List (BookRiot)
- Black Lives Matter Reading List (Institute of the Black World)
- Black Lives Matter Reading List for Adults (Skokie Public Library)
- Black Lives Matter Reading List for Adults (Hennepin County Library)
- Black Lives Matter Longform Reading List (Autostraddle)
- Black Lives Matter Resource Series (Oakland Public Library)
- Black Lives Matter International Reading List (Columbia University Libraries)
- How Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Reading List (NPR)
- Black Joy Experience Resource Guide (BYP 100)
- Black Liberation Reading List (Schomburg Center, New York Public Library)
- Black Lives Matter Comics Reading Lists (all ages; BCALA and GNCRT)
- The Black Radical Tradition: compilation of writings about black radical and revolutionary movements in the US in the 20th century
- Black Revolutionary Texts
- Black Queer and Trans Reading List
- BIPOC LGBTQ Resource List (compiled by Jen Brown, We Here community manager, June 2020)
- Canadian Black Lives Matter Reading Guide (Hamilton Public Library)
- Bibliography of Lynching and Racial Violence
- Black Bibliography Project
- Digital Abolitionist Library
- Saint Heron Community Library
- Zora Canon: 100 Books by Black Women Authors
- 18 Books every White Ally Should Read (Bustle)
- 17 Books on Race Every White Person Needs to Read (Bustle)
- 16 Books about Race Every White Person Should Read (Huffington Post)
- Reading Race: Best Non-fiction of 2015 (Seattle Public Library)
- Anne Braden 2015 Anti-Racist Organizing Training Program Reading List
- “A Time for Treason” Reading List (The New Inquiry)
- Curriculum for White Americans To Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–From Ferguson To Charleston
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages (Augusta Baker Chair, University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science)
- Anti-Racist Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi (Chicago Public Library)
- Police and Prison Abolition 101: A Syllabus and FAQ (Autostraddle)
- Book and Film Lists (Racial Equity Tools)
- Resources to Understand Racism in America (Smithsonian)
#BlackLivesMatter Libguides and Research Guides
Black Lives Matter Reference Guide (compiled by Malcolm Teller, July 2016)
- Arizona University
- Bristol Community College
- Cornell University
- Duke University Anti-Racism and Black Liberation Libguide
- Duquesne University
- Framingham State University
- Free Library of Philadelphia
- Gustavus Adolphus College
- LaGuardia Community College
- Madison Area Technical College
- Metropolitan College of New York
- Michigan State University
- Northfield Mount Hermon School
- Princeton University
- Salem State University
- San Francisco Public Schools
- Simmons University Anti-Racism Libguide
- Syracuse University Resources for Racial Justice Libguide
- University of Pennsylvania Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism Collections Libguide
- University of Puget Sound
- University of South Carolina Upstate
- University of Southern California
- Washington State University Vancouver
- Wellesley College
Children’s/Young Adult Booklists
- Brown Bookshelf
- Kirkus Diversity Collections: Black Collections
- Picture Books to Help Kids Talk about Racism
- Picture Books about Civil Rights
- Black Lives Matter Reading List for Children and Families (Skokie Public Library)
- Black Lives Matter Reading List for Young Adults (Skokie Public Library)
- Black Girls Matter: YA Reading List
- Black Children’s Books and Authors
- We Read Too: iOS mobile app directory of children’s and YA fiction written by and featuring people of color.
- The Conscious Kid: Diverse reading lists and subscriptions
- Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance
- Anti-Racism for Kids 101: Starting to talk about Race
- Online Resources for Families Regarding Racial Injustice (Children’s Museum of the Arts)
- Queer YA Books by Black Authors
Teaching Resources
- Teaching With the News: Black Lives Matter, Continuing the Civil Rights Movement
- Teaching for Change: Black Lives Matter resources
- BlackLivesMatter Lesson Plans
- Black Lives Matter Resources for Educators
- Talking to Kids about Racism and Justice (Oakland Public Library)
- Resources for Talking With Kids about Tragedies
- “New Jim Crow” Study Guides
- Teaching Young Children about Bias, Diversity, and Social Justice
- EmbraceRace
- Facing History
- Histories of Colour
- Collection of Resources for Teaching Social Justice
- Teaching Tolerance Classroom Resources
- BLM Resources for Educators (D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice)
- Teaching While White
- Confronting White Nationalism in Schools: A Toolkit
- Teaching Resources on African American People’s History (Zinn Education Project)
Library, Archival, Museum, and Online Collections
- African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey (Newtonville and Atlantic City, NJ)
- African American History Digital Collections (Library of Congress)
- African American Library at the Gregory School Digital Archive (Houston Public Library, Texas)
- African American Research Library & Cultural Center (Broward County Library, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
- Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
- Amistad Research Center (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- Appalachian African American Cultural Center (Pennington Gap, Virginia)
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History (Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System)
- Black Archives, History, and Research Foundation of South Florida (Miami, Florida)
- Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
- Black Heritage Reference Center (Queens Public Library, New York)
- Black History Month Library Online Resource Collection (curated by Charles Preston)
- Black Lesbian Archives
- Black Lives Matter web archive (Archive-It.org)
- Black Lives Matter digital collection (Internet Archive)
- Black Lives Matter collection (Princeton University)
- Black Lives Matter, Policing, and Protest Guide Zines (Sherwood Forest Virtual Zine Library)
- Blackpast.org Online Reference Collection of African American History
- Black Sound Lab
- Black Trans Archive
- Black Women Oral History Project Interviews (Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute)
- California African American Museum (Los Angeles, California)
- Center for Civil and Human Rights (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tennessee)
- Colored Conventions: Bringing 19th century Black Organizing to Digital Life
- Documenting Ferguson (Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri)
- DuSable Museum of African American History (Chicago, Illinois)
- Free Black Women’s Library
- Freedman’s Bureau Project
- Historical African American Newspapers Online (Marist College libguide)
- International African American Museum (Charleston, S.C.)
- Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Montgomery, Alabama)
- Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center (Kingston, N.Y.)
- Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Minnesota African American Heritage Museum & Gallery (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
- Musée des Civilisations Noires/Museum of Black Civilizations (Dakar, Senegal)
- Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum Online
- POC Zine Project
- Preserve the Baltimore Uprising Archive Project
- People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland
- Race Relations in Minnesota Resource Guide (Minnesota Historical Society)
- Race and Policing Research Collection (IssueLab)
- River Road African American Museum (Donaldsonville, Louisiana)
- Save the Boards (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Sounds of Black Lives Matter: music and video collection
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Digital Gateway
- Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection (Chicago Public Library)
#BlackLivesMatter in Libraries and Archives
- African American Literature Book Club
- African American Studies Librarians Interest Group (Association of College and Research Libraries)
- Anastasi, Katy. "Abolitionist De-Escalation and the Library." Virtual poster session, 2020.
- Archives for Black Lives
- Archivists and Archives of Color Section (Society of American Archivists)
- Are You A Librarian?: The Untold Story of Black Librarians. Documentary by Rodney Freeman
- Art of Black Dissent
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Information Professionals Interest Group
- Association of African American Museums
- Balzer, Cass. “Rethinking Police Presence.” American Libraries Magazine, July 8, 2020.
- Black Archival Practice 1 (The Black Scholar 52.2, Summer 2022)
- Black Archival Practice 2 (The Black Scholar 52.4, Winter 2022)
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association
- Black Excellence LIS Syllabus (crowdsourced list, by T-Kay)
- Black Librarians
- Black Lives Matter: Building Empathy through Reading (YALSA - in 2 parts)
- Black Lives Matter/Anti-Racism Efforts (Ivy Plus Libraries Research, Teaching, and Learning Affinity Group)
- Black Lives Matter Resource List (Progressive Librarians Guild)
- Black Metropolis Research Consortium
- Blackivists: Collective of Black Archivists
- "A Call for Ivy+ Libraries to Divest from Police and Prisons and Invest in Life-Giving Resources." October 28, 2020.
- Clark, I. J. “Public libraries, police and the normalisation of surveillance.” Infoism, 24 August, 2016.
- Collins, Stacy (interviewee). “How Libraries are Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement.” NPR, June 13, 2020.
- Community-based Approaches to Archives from the Black Lives Matter Movement
- Dapier, Jarrett, and Knox, Emily. “When Not to Call the Cops: A Plea to Protect Black Patrons.” American Libraries Magazine, July 8, 2020.
- Data4BlackLives
- Disrupting Whiteness in Libraries and Librarianship (University of Wisconsin)
- Diverse Spines
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ALA Advocacy)
- DLF Authenticity Project
- DocNow
- Drake, Jarrett M. “#ArchivesForBlackLives: Building a Community Archives of Police Violence in Cleveland.” medium.com, 22 April, 2016.
- Drake, Jarrett M. “Expanding #ArchivesForBlackLives to Traditional Archival Repositories.” medium.com, 27 June, 2016.
- Green Book for Libraries: A Guide to Working Conditions of Libraries For Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
- Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change
- Hathcock, April. “White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 7 October 2015.
- HBCU Library Alliance
- Hear Diversity: diverse audiobook resources
- Inclusive Library: More than a Diverse Collection (YALSA - in 2 parts)
- Joint Council of Librarians of Color
- Know Systemic Racism
- Libraries 4 All St. Louis
- Libraries4BlackLives
- Libraries Respond: Black Lives Matter (American Library Association)
- Libraries Respond to Recent Crises (American Libraries Magazine)
- Library Freedom Project Statement on Library Divestment from Police
- Little Known Black Librarian Facts
- Macias, Max. “Three Anti-Racist Actions You Can Take In Your Library, Right Now.” Lowrider Librarian, July 24, 2020.
- National Conference of African American Librarians (NCAAL)
- POC In LIS Summit
- Project Ready: Reimagining Equity and Access for Diverse Youth
- Racial Equity in the Library
- Reading While White: Allies for Racial Diversity and Inclusion in Books for Children and Teens
- Reminisce Preservation
- Resources to Counter White Nationalism in Libraries
- Robinson, Nathan. “No Holds Barred: Policing and Security in the Public Library.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 11 December, 2019.
- Michele R. Santamaria. “Concealing White Supremacy Through Fantasies of the Library.” Library Trends, v.68, no.3 (Winter 2020). (via Project MUSE)
- Statements from Libraries and Library Organizations on Racism, Black Lives Matter, and Increased Violence (Infodocket, June 1, 2020)
- Storytime Underground Statement on Black Lives Matter
- Unpacking White Supremacy in Academic Libraries
- Up//Root: a publishing collective that exists to center the works, knowledge, and experiences of BIPOC within the context of the library and archive community.
- We Build Black: Communities for Black Technologists
- We Here: Community for BIPOC Library and Archive Workers
- We Need Diverse Books
- WOC+LIB
Activism and Advocacy Organizations
Partial Map of Black-led liberation organizing
- Advancement Project
- African American Policy Forum
- Amistad Law Project
- Anti Police-Terror Project
- Assata’s Daughters
- Audre Lorde Project
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Black and Pink
- Black Collective
- Black Liberation Collective
- Black Movement Law Project
- Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity
- Black Trans Media
- Black Visions Collective (Minnesota)
- Black Women Radicals
- Black Youth Project
- Blackout Collective
- Blackout for Human Rights
- Blackspace
- Catalyst Project: Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation
- Cite Black Women
- Color of Change
- Communities United for Police Reform (NYC)
- Critical Resistance
- Cultural Bridges to Justice
- Digital Abolitionist
- Dignity and Power Now
- Disrupting Whiteness (Stanford University)
- Dream Defenders
- Echoing Ida
- Equal Justice Society
- FaithForJustice
- Ferguson Action
- Fierce NYC
- Forward Together
- Incite!
- Injustice Boycott
- Know Your Rights Camp
- Law for Black Lives
- Liberation Library
- Live Free
- Million Hoodies Movement for Justice
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Nation Inside: Ending Mass Incarceration
- National Black Justice Coalition
- No White Saviors
- Octavia Project
- Okra Project
- Organization for Black Struggle
- People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
- People’s Justice
- Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
- Police Reform Organizing Project
- Project NIA
- Project South
- Race Conscious
- Race Forward
- Racial Equity Tools
- Reclaim the Block
- Re:Power
- Safety Pin Box
- SayTheirNames
- Sentencing Project
- Showing Up For Racial Justice
- Sister Song: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
- Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNAPCO)
- Southern Coalition for Social Justice
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Southerners on New Ground
- Standing on the Side of Love
- Stop Cop City
- Survived and Punished
- Sylvia Rivera Law Project
- Thrive Washington
- Transform Harm
- TransWomen of Color Collective
- Together List of POC Advocacy Organizations
- Trust Black Women: Stand with Us for Reproductive Justice
- Undocublack Network
- #8toAbolition (Archived site)
Bookstores, Publishers, etc.
Crowdsourced Map of Black-Owned Bookstores (Subway Book Review)
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores (2025)
- Black Garnet Books (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
- Books and Crannies (Martinsville, Virginia)
- Cafe con Libros (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Eso Won Books (Los Angeles, California)
- The Garden Abolitionist Bookstore (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Hakim’s Bookstore (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Harriet’s Bookshop (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- The Lit. Bar (The Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
- Mahogany Books (Washington D.C.)
- Marcus Books (Oakland, California)
- Revolution Books (New York, N.Y.)
- Semicolon Bookstore (Chicago, Illinois)
- Sister’s Uptown Bookstore and Cultural Center (New York, N.Y.)
- Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books (Philadelphia)
- 1804 Books (New York, N.Y.)
News, Blogs, Podcasts, etc.
- AfroPunk
- ArtStuffMatters
- BlackGirlDangerous
- CodeSwitch
- ColorLines
- Decolonize All the Things
- The Each Other Project
- Intersectionality Matters! Podcast
- Juneteenth Book Fest
- MTV Decoded
- Prison Culture
- RaceBaitr
- Race/Related
- The Root
- Son of Baldwin
- This Week in Blackness
- Truth Out
- Urban Cusp
- Urban Intellectuals
- Very Smart Brothas
- WTF Is a Radical Librarian, Anyway?
- Young, Colored, and Angry
- 1619 Podcast
Self-Care, Trauma, and Tragedy
- ColorLines Self-Care Resources
- Activist Trauma Support
- Five Digital Self-Care Practices Black People Can Use while Coping with Trauma
- Helping Children Deal with Shootings and Other Bad News (DC Public Library)
- Helping Kids Cope With Media Coverage of War and Traumatic Events
- Self Care for People of Color after Trauma
- How Women of Color are Practicing Self Care in A Trump World
- Oh Crap What Now? Survival Guide
Police Violence, Arrests, Protests, etc.: Rights, Safety, and Documenting
- Abolitionist Library Association Listserv
- What to do instead of calling the police: Syllabus/guide
- Alternatives to Calling the Police (It’s Going Down)
- 12 Things to Do Instead of Calling the Cops (May Day Collective)
- “When Not to Call the Cops” (BCALA Webinar, March 18, 2021)
- Cop Free Library (Twitter account)
- No Cops in Libraries Zine
- Libraries, Prisons, and Abolition (Liv Graham, 2020)
- Safe Outside the System Collective and Safe Party Toolkit
- ACLU Know Your Rights: When you are stopped by police
- ACLU Know Your Rights: Demonstrations and Protests
- ACLU Know Your Rights/Conozca sus derechos Wallet Cards (for purchase)
- National Lawyers Guild Know Your Rights Guides (multilingual)
- NYCLU Protest Guide
- What to Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them
- Anti-Violence Project Safety Tips for Police Violence and Hate Violence
- How to Film the Police in the U.S.
- Staying Safe and Sexy at the Queer Beach
- 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
- Bearing Witness Guide: Filming Police Encounters
- Stop and Frisk Watch App
- SURJ Defund the Police Resource Guide for White People
- Mobile Justice: Apps from ACLU to record Police Conduct
- Jail Support Best Practices
- Directory of Community Bail Funds (National Bail Fund Network)
- Copwatch Patrol Unit
- Mapping Police Violence
- Raheem: Chatbot for Tracking and Rating Police Interactions
- People’s Database for Community-based Police Accountability (Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS)
- Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database (Bowling Green State University
- The Counted
- The Marshall Project
- Documenting Hate
- Documenting Injuries for Law and Media purposes
- Digital Security Tips for Protestors (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Image Scrubber App: To anonymize photographs taken at protests
- Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment
- Witness.org
Media, Bias, and Fact-Checking Resources
- Breaking News Consumers’ Handbook
- How to Detect Bias in News Media
- False, Misleading, Click-baity, and/or Satirical “News” Sources
- How to Spot and Debunk Fake News
- MediaMatters: issues pages
- Journalism.org: Race and Ethnicity
- Sociological Images: Police, Black Americans, and U.S. Society
- Center for Media Justice
- Crash Override: Online Abuse Crisis Helpline
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Propaganda and Activism
- Politifact
Government, Civic, & Business Resources
- Black Voters Matter
- Contact Your Elected Officials
- “We’re His Problem Now”: Calling Scripts for Contacting Elected Officials
- Register and Vote in Your State (U.S. Election Assistance Commission)
- U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- Local and Regional Government Alliance on Racial Equity
- African American History Month
- Backing Black Businesses
- U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency
- Small Business Association 8(a) Business Development Program
- Directory of 8(a) Federally certified Minority/Women-owned businesses
Find More in Libraries
- Find a library near you (USA.gov directory)
- Find items in libraries near you (Worldcat.org)
Social Media accounts and hashtags
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About this document
Update History: A brief selection of resources was originally published by Que(e)ry as a post on queeryparty.tumblr.com on July 8, 2016, with several updates over the next few days. On July 11, 2016, that list had grown substantially and was transitioned to this document. Subsequently on July 8, 2025 it was moved to the Libraries Resist website, where any further updates will be reflected. Contact us if you want to contribute or if you notice any problems with the document (such as broken links or misattributions).
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