Letters for Black Lives

Letters for Black Lives is a set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities.

We wrote a letter in 2016, which you can read here along with how this project came together.

Here are the finished translated 2016 Letters (and Readings): Available translations in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Bengali, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Hindi, Hmong (Green dialect), Hmong (White dialect), Farsi, French, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese.

And here’s some background on how this all began:

• A Letter From Young Asian-Americans To Their Families About Black Lives Matter (via NPR)
• Meeting People Where They Are: The Seed Crystal of the Letters for Black Lives Project (via Reappropriate)

A new 2020 effort is underway. Here’s where you can learn more.