Black Lives Matter

BLACK LIVES MATTER

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THE ISSUES

RACIAL INJUSTICE

POLICE BRUTALITY

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

BLACK IMMIGRATION

ECONOMIC INJUSTICE

LGBTQIA+ AND HUMAN RIGHTS

ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE

ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION

VOTING RIGHTS + SUPPRESSION

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Immediate Actions To Take: -

Call Your Reps to Support HR. 40: Commission to Develop Reparations Proposal
Call Your Reps to Support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 (passed house)
Send a message to your members of Congress urging them to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Sign the petition — Tell President Biden to grant clemency to 25,000.
Sign the petition — People's Bailout Petition
Sign the 15 Percent Pledge — a pledge for major retailers to commit a minimum of 15% of their shelf to Black-owned Businesses.
Support The BREATHE Act — To support the bill, sign up to become a community co-sponsor here.
Help Dismantle the '94 Crime Bill
Shop, follow, like + support Black-owned businesses. Don't know where to start or why this matters? Learn more with Melanade Stand.
Boycott companies that use prison labor. Complete list here.

Organizations To Support + Follow:-

Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up: -

Start here —

Articles —

26 Ways To Be In the Struggle Beyond The Streets

97 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
Abolition 101: Abolitionist Reading Database
Abolish Prison Labor — Anti-Racism Daily
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Calls For Defunding of Police Departments by Rebekah Sager — Hollywood Reporter
Black Lives Matter May Be The Largest Movement in U.S. History — NYTimes
From Words to Action: Showing Up for Black Trans Women — TGIJP
How Sylvia Rivera Created the Blueprint for Transgender Organizing by Raquel Willis — OUT Magazine
How We Can End Violence Against Trans Women of Color by Raquel Willis — Out Magazine
Reparations Toolkit — M4BL
Resources for Accountability and Action for Black Lives
The Combahee River Collective Statement

When Black Lives Matter, Black Trans People Must Be Freed From Discrimination and Violence by Tiq Milan — NBC

Books —

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown
Ain't I Woman? by bell hooks
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Angela Davis
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lesson for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
Black On White: Black Writers On What It Means to Be White by David Roediger
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, + the Prison-Industrial Complex by Julia Sudbury
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That The Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi’s
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experiments on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
Passing by Nella Larson
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
so you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
Sula by Toni Morrison
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire
The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Mills
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
T he Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin D’Angelo
Why We Can’t Wait by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis
You Can't Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson

Watch —

Start here: Black Lives Matter x Netflix
13th — HBO
Becoming — Netflix
Beyonce's Black Is King — Disney+
Beyonce's Lemonade — Available for Rent
Black Futures: An Ode to Freedom Summer — Vimeo via The Movement for Black Lives
Dear White People — Netflix
Disclosure Doc — Netflix
Get Out — Netflix
Hidden Figures — Netflix
I Am Not Your Negro — Netflix
Insecure — HBO
Just Mercy — Netflix
Ken Burns: The Central Park Five
Malcolm X — Netflix
Moonlight — Netflix
Selma — Netflix
The Hate U Give — Hulu
The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X — YouTube
Treme — HBO
When They See Us — Netflix

IN SUMMARY:

Choose to support racial justice every day.

Educate yourself.

Donate money (if you can).

Have difficult conversations.

Take political action.

Be actively anti-racist.

NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at community@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our 2022 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.

Last updated Mar 18, 2022.