THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
Here’s how you can get involved…
- Check in on your Black friends, family, neighbors... everyone. Show them they are loved and that you are here for them. Listen to what they have to say.
- Educate yourself by watching documentaries
- “13th” on Netflix
- “Just Mercy”
- “Malcolm X” on Youtube
- “Green Book” on Vudu
- “12 Years A Slave” on Youtube
- “Boyz n the Hood” on Vudu
- “The Butler” on Youtube
- “Coonskin” on Youtube
- “Selma” on Youtube
- “Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap” on Netflix
- “Clemency” on Amazon
- “Dear White People” on Netflix
- “Queen and Slim” on Amazon
- “LA 92” on Netflix
- “American Son” on Netflix
- “Who Killed Malcolm X?” on Netflix
- “Becoming” on Netflix
- “When They See Us” on Netflix
- “Time: The Kalief Browder Story” on Netflix
- “Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement” on Youtube/Amazon
- “Freedom Riders” on Amazon
- “Fruitvale Station” on Youtube/Amazon
- “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story” on Amazon
- “Seven Seconds” on Netflix
- “I Am Not Your Negro” on Amazon
- “The Central Park Five” on Amazon
- Educate yourself by reading books
- “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
- “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo
- “They Can’t Kill Us All” by Wesley Lowery
- “Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements” by Charlene Carruthers
- “When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
- “On The Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope” by DeRay Mckesson
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo
- “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker” by Damon Young
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the Worlds, and Become a Good Ancestor” by Layla Saad
- “Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America” by Jennifer Harvey
- “Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook” by Christopher Noxon
- “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander
- “Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter” by Jordan T. Camp
- “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
- “Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States” by Alicia Garza
- “The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race” by Jesmyn Ward
- “Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement” by Angela Y. Davis
- “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- “No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements” by Hilary Moore
- “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” by Malcolm X, Alex Haley (with)
- “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas
- “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You” by Jason Reynolds
- “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn
- “Biased” by Jennifer Eberhardt
- “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
- “Heavy: An American Memoir” by Kiese Laymon
- “How We Fight White Supremacy” by Akiba Solomon
- “Black Feminist Thought” by Patricia Hill Collins
- “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
- “Beloved” by Toni Morrison
- “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein
- “Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States” by Carl A. Zimring
- “A Terrible Thing to Waste” by Harriet A. Washington
- “There’s Something in the Water” by Ingrid R.G. Waldron
- “Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility” by Dorceta E. Taylor
- “From the Ground Up” by Luke W. Cole & Sheila R. Foster
- “Black, White, and Green: Farmer’s Markets, Race, and The Green Economy” by Alison Hope Alkon
- “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement” by Monica M. White
- “My Faith in Broccoli: Racism, Privilege, and Food Deserts” by Kay Bolden
- 1619
- Code Switch
- The Young Turks
- Pod Save the People
- About Race
- Seeing White
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- The Diversity Gap
- Intersectionality Matters!
- Pod for the Cause
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- Post on social media (Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, etc)
- Talk about the Black Lives Matter movement with friends/family
- Put up posters/signs around your neighborhood
- VOTE!
- Create signs to bring with you
- Invite others to protest with you & show their support
- Be safe!
- National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
- My Block, My Hood, My City
- Marsha P Washington Institute
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- AIM American Indian Movement Interpretive Center
- Northside Business Support
- Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL)
- Scores Sports Bar Minneapolis Rebuild
- Baltimore Legal Action Team
- Destiny’s Dream Scholarship
- Destiny Harrison Funeral Fund
- George Floyd Memorial Fund
- Donate by playing games: this app utilizes admob ads while playing a game to raise money for BLM
- Donate by streaming playlist
- How to donate with no money
- Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund
- Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd’s daughter)
- Assistance for Jennifer Jeffley
- Good Kids Mad City Baltimore
- Helping Hand-Small Business Relief
- SacDelux Consignment Store
- Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief
- Minneapolis Black Owned Business Help Fund
- Long Beach Black Owned Business Fund
- Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Justice for Ahmaud Arbery
- Justice for Emerald Black
- Battle racism by updating GCSE reading lists
- Justice for Belly Mujinga
- Mandatory life sentence for police brutality
- Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
- Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez
- Justice for Lakeith Smith
- Justice for Willie Simmons
- Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control
- Make Black history mandatory teaching in U.K. schools
- Justice for Darrius Stewart
- Drop all charges against Chrystul Kizer
- Justice for Andile Mchunu
- Justice for Kyjuanzi Harris
- Suspend export of arms and riot gear to America during violent attacks by US police
- Support for police officers to need a degree in psychology and sociology
- Jail time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles
- Mandate the police force academies to take racial bias tests
- Change KKK status into terrorist organization
- Permanently remove the Columbus statue and rename Christopher Columbus Park in Boston, MA
- Mandatory body cameras for Montreal Police
- Get Washington State to hold police officers accountable for police brutality
- Drop false charges placed on Brittany Williams
- Classify White Supremacist groups as terrorist organizations
- Support for schools in America to talk about the Black Lives Matter Movement in classrooms
- Fire LAPD Chief Michael Moore
- Justice for Ashton Dickson
- Discard the Anti Terrorism Bill
- Justice for Amiya Braxton
- Justice for James Scurlock
- Justice for Alajunaye Davis
- Justice for Kendrick Johnson
- Federally required psychological screenings for police
- Justice for Philando Castile
- Justice for Jefferson Elie
- Justice for Jennifer Jeffley
- Justice for Eric Jack Logan
- Justice for Dafonte Miller
- Justice for Dominique Clayton
- Justice for Anderson Arboleda
- Justice for Iyad Al-Khalak
- Justice for Kenneth Reams
- Increase support for African American studies at UMD
- Justice for LaVena Johnson
- Justice for Dominique Fells
- Justice for Robert Fuller
- Justice for Elijah McClain
- Justice for Elijah Nichols
- Justice for Zinedine Karabo Gioia
- Justice for Angel Bumpass
- While we’re at it…. Abolish ICE
- Support Black-owned restaurants
- Support Black-owned fashion labels/stores
- Pyer Moss
- Johnny Nelson Jewelry
- A. Sauvage
- Brother Vellies
- Telfar
- Renowned LA
- Xuly.Bet
- All Caps Studio
- Armando Cabral
- Daily Paper
- Third Crown
- L’enchanteur
- Ashya
- Frere
- Brownstone
- The Marathon Clothing
- The Brooklyn Circus
- Denim Tears
- Bianca Saunders
- Nicholas Daley
- No Sesso
- A-Cold-Wall
- Martine Rose
- Post Imperial
- Wales Bonner
- Waraire Boswell
- Kenneth Nicholson
- X of Pentacles
- Union
- BLK MKT Vintage
- Wafflesncream
- Kenneth Ize
- Romeo Hunte
- Victor Glemaud
- Phlemuns
- Studio 189
- Public School NYC
- Mowalola
- Maxhosa Africa
- Casely-Hayford
- Darryl Brown
- Brett Johnson
- Tongoro
- Pseudonym
- Spencer Badu
- Orange Culture
- 4YE
- The Folklore
- The Fuzzy Pineapple
- Support Black-owned beauty/wellness brands
- “FLOYD” to 55156
- “JUSTICE” to 668366
- “ENOUGH” to 55156
- “NOSTIGMA” to 707070 for free therapy for communities of color
- (502) 574-2003: Demand justice for Breonna Taylor
- (770) 800-0689 for a prompt & instructions to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery
- (303) 866-2471: Demand justice for Elijah McClain
- Minneapolis Police demanding justice for George Floyd
- Louisville’s District Attorney demanding charges be pressed against all officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s death
- tbwine@louisvilleprosecutor.com
- Tallahassee’s City Attorney, Cassandra Jackson, and demand the officer responsible for Tony’s death be identified, arrested, and charged accordingly
- Link to demand justice for Julius Jones
- Link to stop John’s Hopkins University from funding a private police force in Baltimore
- Email templates to defund & reform the police
- Email template (from Maasai Godwin)
- Hello, my name is (insert name). I am a resident of (City/State) and I am emailing today to demand accountability for the racist murder of (insert victim name). I demand that charges be pressed against all officers involved in this heinous racist murder, including specifically (insert murderer’s name/s). They should not be allowed to keep their jobs and should be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for manslaughter. Furthermore, I demand that we start providing more support towards community efforts and organizations outside of the police forces in order to prevent police brutality and violence in the future. Sincerely, (your name).
- The crisis in Yemen… Since 2015, Yemen has been facing the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Caused by an ongoing war with Saudi Arabia, over 24 million are in need and an estimated 85,000 children have died because of famine. The Coronavirus has only made things worse, such as putting an additional 5 million children out of school.
- Document made by Sara Swanson