DAILY ACTIVISM

a non-exhaustive list of action items for sustainable change. #blacklivesmatter

put your money behind your beliefs

• The Movement For Black Lives, https://secure.actblue.com/donate/movement-4-black-lives-1

• Reclaim The Block, https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/home

• National Bail Fund Network, https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory

• Equal Justice Initiative, https://support.eji.org/give/153413/#!/donation/checkout

• National Bail Out, https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freeblackmamas2020

• Black Lives Matter, https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019

• Campaign Zero, https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

• The Innocence Project, https://www.innocenceproject.org/

• NAACP Legal Defense Fund, https://www.naacpldf.org/

• Fair Fight, https://fairfight.com/

• The Loveland Foundation Therapy Fund, https://thelovelandfoundation.org/loveland-therapy-fund/

buy black

• List of Black Owned Business Online Apps, https://refinery29.com/en-us/2020/06/9849096/find-black-owned-businesses-online-apps

• Official Black Wall Street Directory, https://officialblackwallstreet.com/directory/

• Support Black Owned, https://www.supportblackowned.com/

support black artists/filmmakers

• Black Power Playlist, https://www.cbc.ca/music/black-lives-matter-30-powerful-songs-about-police-brutality-anti-black-racism-and-revolution-1.5598202

• The Provocateurs: A Master Series, https://blacklivesmatter.com/the-provocateurs-a-master-series/

• https://www.thezoereport.com/p/8-black-artists-to-support-give-your-home-upgrade-while-youre-at-it-22958858

• Donate to Black Artists, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/where-to-donate-black-lives-matter-1879701

read

• FOR CHILDREN

  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/06/02/books-to-learn-more-anti-racism-adults-kids/5306873002/

  • https://www.readbrightly.com/picture-books-featuring-black-female-protagonists/

  • https://www.theconsciouskid.org/black-books-matter-childrens-books-celebrating-black-boys

• FOR ADULTS

  • “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo

  • “Between the World and Me” by TaNehisi Coates

  • “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander

  • “Freedom Is a Constant Struggle” by Angela Davis

  • “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein

  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/06/02/books-to-learn-more-anti-racism-adults-kids/5306873002/

watch

• For White Privilege, Explained: The Racial Gap

• For the criminalization of Black Americans, 13th

• A teenager wrongfully jailed at Riker’s Island for 1,000 days, Time: The Kalief Browder Story

• Central Park Jogger Case, When They See Us

• For Racism, Police Brutality, and Activism, The Hate U Give

• For Racial Inequality, I Am Not Your Negro

listen

• The Nod Podcast

• Black History Year Podcast

• NY Times, 1619 Podcast

• NPR, Code Switch Podcast

• Poppin’ Policies Podcast

contact your elected officials

• Find Your Federal, State, and Local Representative and the bills they’ve introduced, https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/

• Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/invest-divest/

• Campaign Zero, https://8cantwait.org/

vote

• Register to Vote and Check your Voter Registration Status, https://www.whenweallvote.org/

• Voting Resources, https://www.vote.org/

sign petitions

• Discover petitions to sign or start your own, https://www.change.org/petitions

don’t neglect your mental health

• Dear Black Women Project, https://www.dearblackwomenproject.com/resources

• Therapy for Black Girls, https://therapyforblackgirls.com/

• Therapy for Black Men, https://therapyforblackmen.org/

• Talk Space, https://www.talkspace.com/

• Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective, https://www.beam.community/

• Ethel’s Club, https://www.ethelsclub.com/

• The Loveland Foundation, https://thelovelandfoundation.org/