DONATE • LA
Los Angeles Community Action Network
LA CAN is committed to helping people dealing with poverty by eradicating the race, class, and gender barriers that are used to prevent communities from building true power.
Black Emotional & Mental Health Collective
BEAM aims to remove the barriers that Black people experience getting access to or staying connected with emotional health care and healing.
People’s City Council Freedom Fund
A fund for legal support, bail, fines, and court fees for arrested protesters in Los Angeles.
BLM Los Angeles Action Bail Fund
Black Lives Matter affiliated bail fund for protesters in Los Angeles.
Community Coalition works to help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing and changing public policy.
DONATE • NATIONWIDE
Until Freedom is an intersectional social justice organization rooted in the leadership of diverse people of color to address systemic and racial injustice.
The Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative is a Black trans and queer led collaborative that campaigns for the divestment from the prison industrial complex and investment in services and support for the Black queer community.
Loveland Foundation Therapy Fund
The Loveland Foundation brings opportunity and healing to communities of color, and especially to Black women and girls.
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute protects and defends the human rights of Black transgender people by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting collective power.
Act Blue Bail Funds for Protestors
A fund devoted to fighting for racial justice, focused on helping low-income people, protestors and bystanders who have been unfairly arrested and must post high cash bails.
SUPPORT BLACK ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Women’s Center for Creative Work (LA)
The WCCW works to change contemporary creative industries by providing professional tools to trans and cis women, nonbinary people, and people of color, and encouraging them to work professionally in creative fields or create alternative ways of making and sharing work outside of these industries.
AFROTECTOPIA is a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation at the intersections of art, design, technology, Black culture, and activism.
Black-led exhibition space, bookstore, and community center in Los Angeles.
BGDM is a collective that bolsters the creative and professional success of women and non-binary people of color working in the documentary industry and to challenges the often marginalizing norms of the documentary field.
Color Film connects womxn and marginalized folks with tools and resources to self-advocate in the film industry. They host workshops, meet ups and film events in the Los Angeles area. [venmo: @itsdarbyrose, paypal: darbyrhj@gmail.com]
Gathering Black communities through the arts toward better Black futures.
EDUCATE YOURSELF • DOCUMENTARIES
Wattstax • Mel Stuart [YouTube]
Tongues Untied • Marlon Riggs [Kanopy]
Color Adjustment • Marlon Riggs [Vimeo]
The Farm: Angola, USA • Liz Garbus + Jonathan Stack [iTunes]
The Larry Davis Story • Troy Reed [YouTube]
The World of Piri Thomas • Gordon Parks [YouTube]
You Got to Move • Lucy Massie Phenix [Vimeo]
When The Levees Broke • Spike Lee [HBO]
Black Panthers • Agnes Varda [Criterion]
The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye [Kanopy]
The Watermelon Woman • Cheryl Dunye [Criterion]
Surveillance • Carrie May Weems [YouTube]
The Black Power Mixtape • Göran Olsson [YouTube]
Finally Got The News • Rene Lichtman + Peter Gessner + Stewart Bird [YouTube]