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BLACK LIVES MATTER resources

This resource guide has been created in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to share resources, funds, and to uplift the Black and Brown voices in our community.
 
Esta guía de recursos ha sido creada en solidaridad con el movimiento Black Lives Matter (BLM) para compartir recursos, fondos y elevar las voces de Black and Brown en nuestra comunidad.
We welcome you to submit resources so we can build together.
Lo invitamos a enviar recursos para que podamos construir juntos.
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Databases
Additional Databases
Beneficios de SNAP para emergencias
Black Youth Project 100
Information | Donate
  • BYP100 Action Fund is the 501(c)(4) arm of BYP100, a national organization of Black 18-35 year olds dedicated to creating freedom & justice for all Black people.

Black Visions Collective (BLVC)
Information | Donate
  • BLVC is a Black Queer/Trans led org that believes in a future where all Black people have autonomy, safety is community-led, and we are in right relationship within our ecosystems. Through the development of powerful strategic campaigns, BLVC seek to expand the power of Black people across the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota.

Louisville Community Bail Fund
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  • The Louisville Community Bail Fund exists to not only bail out folks, but provide post-release support to get them from jail, fed, and to a situation of safety. LCBF also maintains a focus on preventative measures for those targeted by law enforcement and threatened with incarceration.

National Bail Out – #FreeBlackMamas
Information | Donate
  • National Bail Out is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration. We are people who have been impacted by cages — either by being in them ourselves or witnessing our families and loved ones be encaged. We are queer, trans, young, elder, and immigrant.

Donate
Where to Donate
Beneficios de SNAP para emergencias
Black Youth Project 100
Information | Donate
  • BYP100 Action Fund is the 501(c)(4) arm of BYP100, a national organization of Black 18-35 year olds dedicated to creating freedom & justice for all Black people.

Black Visions Collective (BLVC)
Information | Donate
  • BLVC is a Black Queer/Trans led org that believes in a future where all Black people have autonomy, safety is community-led, and we are in right relationship within our ecosystems. Through the development of powerful strategic campaigns, BLVC seek to expand the power of Black people across the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota.

Louisville Community Bail Fund
Information | Donate
  • The Louisville Community Bail Fund exists to not only bail out folks, but provide post-release support to get them from jail, fed, and to a situation of safety. LCBF also maintains a focus on preventative measures for those targeted by law enforcement and threatened with incarceration.

National Bail Out – #FreeBlackMamas
Information | Donate
  • National Bail Out is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration. We are people who have been impacted by cages — either by being in them ourselves or witnessing our families and loved ones be encaged. We are queer, trans, young, elder, and immigrant.

Queer
Queer/Trans Resources
Beneficios de SNAP para emergencias
Black Visions Collective (BLVC)
Information | Donate
  • BLVC is a Black Queer/Trans led org that believes in a future where all Black people have autonomy, safety is community-led, and we are in right relationship within our ecosystems. Through the development of powerful strategic campaigns, BLVC seek to expand the power of Black people across the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota.

Climate Justice
Climate Justice Resources
Beneficios de SNAP para emergencias
Climate Safe Neighborhoods | via Groundwork USA
Information
  • What does housing discrimination have to do with climate change? Click through the site to learn how Groundwork communities are using maps and data to build resilience to extreme heat and flooding.

Anti-Racism
Anti-Racism Resources
Beneficios de SNAP para emergencias
Reading List | via Victoria Alexander
  • Anti-Racist - Starter Kit:

    • Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi

    • A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn (There is a "young people's" version for elementary and middle school readers)

    • White Fragility - Robin Diangelo

    • So you want to talk about race - Ijeoma Oluo

    • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown

    • Me and White Supremcy - Layla F Saad

    • Stamped - Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

  • Anti-Racist - Intermediate Kit:

    • The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America - Anders Walker

    • The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

    • The Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran Muhammad

    • Dying of Whiteness - Jonathan Metzl

    • A Different Mirror - Ronald Takaki

    • How to be an AntiRacist - Ibram X Kendi

    • How the South Wont the Civil War - Heather Cox Richardson

  • Anti-Racist - Topic Specifics:

    • Evicted - Matthew Desmond

    • Nobody - Marc Lamont Hill

    • Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W Loewen

    • Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Berver Doniel Tatum, PhD

    • The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein

    • Blackballed - Darryl Pinkney

    • Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen

  • Anti-Racist Lit - Bios, Non-fiction, novels, personal narratives:

    • The Warmth of Other Sons - Isabel Wilkerson

    • The Fire Next time - James Baldwin

    • Malcolm X - Alex Haley

    • Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

    • Killing Rage Ending Racism - Bell Hooks

    • Becoming - Michelle Obama

    • An American By Marriage - Tayari Jones

    • A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota -

    • The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride

    • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson

    • The Myth Of Race - Robert Sussman

  • Anti-Racist Lit - Black Feminism:

    • How we Get Free - Keeanga-Yamhtta Taylor

    • Black Feminits Thought - Patricia Hill Collins

    • Ain't I a Woman Black Women and Feminism - Bell Hooks

    • Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay

    • Eloquent Rage - Brittney Cooper

    • In Search of Our Mothers Gardens - Alice Walker

    • Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde

    • Women Race & Class - Angela Y Davis

    • Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur

    • To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe - Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande

  • Anti-Racist Lit - Black LGBTQ+:

    • Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

    • Zami - Audre Lorde

    • Real Life - Brandon Taylor

    • Unapologetic A black, queer, and feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene A Carruthers

    • No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies - E. Patrick Johnson

    • Since I Laid My Burden Down - Brontez Purnell

    • The Other Side of Paradise - Staceyann Chin

    • No Ashes in the Fire - Darnell L. Moore

    • The Summer We Got Free - Mia McKenzie

    • Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin

    • Rising Out of Hatred - Eli Saslow

    • Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identiy - C. Riley Snorton

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