RESOURCES FOR THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT

Below you’ll find a list of petitions to sign, funds and charities to donate to, and resources for educating yourself and those around you.

CHARITIES & FUNDS

• Black Lives Matter
• The Bail Project
• The Liberty Fund
• Reclaim the Block
• I Run With Maud
• Campaign Zero
• Unicorn Riot
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Stand Up To Racism UK

REGIONAL RESOURCES/FUNDS (specific to Level Up HQ in Louisville, Kentucky) 

• Black Lives Matter-Louisville
• Louisville Community Bail Fund

PETITIONS TO SIGN

• Justice for George Floyd
• Justice for Breonna Taylor | Justice for Breonna Taylor
  
• Justice for Ahmaud Arbery
• Justice for Belly Mujinga

BOOKS, ARTICLES & RESOURCES TO READ

• Anti-racism resources for white people (via Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein)
• 75 things white people can do for racial injustice (via Medium)
• Ways to help (via Black Lives Matter)
• IG: George Floyd: How can I help from the UK? (via Das Penman)
• IG: 10 steps to non-optical allyship (via Mireille Charper)
• IG: Transform Allyship into Action: A Toolkit for Non-Black People (via Social Justice in Medicine Coalition at USC)
• Twitter Thread: UK based charities, organisations and platforms whose work aims to eradicate racial injustice (Via Black Ballad)
• Twitter Thread: Advice for companies from Sheree Atcheson, Monzo’s Head of Diversity and Inclusion (Via Sheree Atcheson)
• Why I’m No longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge???
• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
• Natives by Akala
• Dark Days by James Baldwin
• Diversify by June Sarpong
• How To Be Antiracist by Ibran X. Kendi
• Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Tabiri
• White Supremacy and Me by Layla F. Saad
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
• They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
• Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lord
• White Girls by Hilton Als
• Brit-ish by Afuah Hirsh
• Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
• The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla

WATCH & LISTEN

• Angela Davis on intersectional anti-racism (via Roshni Goyate)
• The Colour of Fear, directed by Lee Mun Wah (1994) https://vimeo.com/127289854
• 1619 by The New York Times
• Code Switch by NPR

PEOPLE & ORGS TO FOLLOW

• Entry Level Activist
• Gal-dem
• Color Of Change
• Equal Justice Initiative
• We the Urban
• Munroe Bergdorf
• Mona Chalabi
• Asai Takeaway
• Inquest Org
• BlackVisions
• Lee Merrit (Civil Rights Lawyer)
• NO WHITE SAVIORS
• Layla F. Saad
• Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
• Check Your Privilege
• Rachel Ricketts
• The Great Unlearn
• Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Ibram X. Kendi

GUIDES & TOOLS

• How to protest safely during a pandemic (via VICE)
• Five points to consider before going to a Black Lives Matter protest in London or the UK (via @VARAIDZO)
• Know your rights (via @initialola on Twitter)
• Tool for quickly scrubbing metadata from images and selectively blurring faces and identifiable features (via @everestpipkin Twitter)
• Free flyer printing (via The Photocopy Club also here)