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SUPPORT BLACK LIVES

Mental Health and Wellness


  • Mental Wellness and the Black Lives Matter Movement
  • 5 Tips for self care during the pandemic and protests
  • Managing Mental Health During Social Movements and Civil Unrest
  • Dealing with Mental Health During Protest 
  • Healing, Self-Care and Joy Toolkit 
  • Self-Care in the Age of Black Lives Matter
  • Yoga Flow for Black Lives Matter (Video)
  • Soulful Yoga (Video)


Know Their Names and Their Stories

Remembering the Black Lives stolen and irreversibly impacted by law enforcement and systems of white supremacy. Don’t allow them to be forgotten. 

  • Interactive List
  • In Memoriam: I Can’t Breathe
  • Say Her Names Card  (Includes links for actions) 
  • Their Names Project
  • #BlackLivesMatter

Stay in the Know

  • MoveOn
  • Resistbot
  • Townhall Project
  • Movement for Black Lives
  • Mobilize Against Racism
  • Showing Up for Racial Justice
  • Indivisible
  • ACLU People Power
  • Track Police Reform Legislation by State

Publications Uplifting Black Voices

  • Wear Your Voice 
  • Bitch Media
  • Unicorn Riot
  • Gal-Dem
  • Black Women Radicals
  • Color Lines
  • Them
  • Prism
  • The Grio
  • The Root
  • News One

Useful Resources and Organizations

  •  A Just Georgia
  • NAACP
  • NAACP Georgia
  • NAACP Louisville
  • Color of Change
  • ACLU 
  • Southern Center for Human Rights
  • Working Families Party
  • Racial Justice Network
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Black Lives Matter Minnesota
  • Reclaim the Block
  • Street Groomers 
  • Tallahassee Community Action Committee
  • Alliance for Black Lives
  • Free Them All for Public Health
  • Texas Civil Rights Project
  • Southerners on New Ground
  • Richmond for All
  • Black Lives Matter DMV
  • Solutions Not Punishments
  • Black Aids Institute
  • Police Propaganda explained and here
  • Understanding Police Abolition
  • 8 to Abolition

Additional Action-Oriented Google Docs

  • Exhaustive Black Lives Matter List ***A LOT OF RESOURCES***
  • #blacklivesmatter- includes regularly updated actions against specific instances of police brutality
  • #Blacklivesmatter- Includes contacts and direct actions
  • Resources to help Black people/Communities
  • 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
  • List of Funds
  • Natl Resource List #GeorgeFloyd
  • More Petitions
  • Mutual aid funds

More Actions to support

  •  #WeAreDoneDying Campaign
  • Help maintain free and fair elections in Georgia
  • She Safe, We Safe Campaign
  • Free From Fear Campaign
  • Movement for Black Lives 5 Year Plan
  • Pledge to Vote
  • Campaign Zero Solutions Overview
  • Help elect more progressive elected officials with the Working Families Party
  • Help Beat Mitch McConnell and Elect Charles Booker
  • Help Ferguson prisoner Joshua Williams by sending parole letters
  • End Money Bail in Miami
  • Close the jail ATL
  • End Qualified Immunity

BAIL FUNDS

**Split your bail fund donation between 60+ orgs at once here**Doc with full list of bail funds and legal aid here.

  • Albany, NY
  • Atlanta
  • Baltimore
  • Bay area
  • Boston
  • Brooklyn-- As of 5/30 Brooklyn Bail Fund is directing any further donations to other organizations working directly to bail out and assist protestors
  • Charleston Sc
  • Charlotte Cash App: $WereStillHere or Venmo: ResistanceisBeautiful
  • Chicago
  • Colorado
  • Columbus, OH
  • Dallas
  • Houston & Houston
  • Louisville
  • May/June MN Bail Fund and Support List **detailed list of ways to donate in Minnesota**
  • Massachusetts
  • Memphis and here
  • Miami
  • NYC
  • Oakland
  • Richmond, VA
  • San Diego
  • San Jose
  • South Carolina
  • Black Trans Protestors Emergency Fund- Cash App $btfacollective 
  • LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund

Funds to support Protestors

  • NorthStar Health Fund for Protestors
  • On the Ground Chi
  • Protestors in need

Petitions for Black Americans

***Please read the petitions in full to ensure you complete actions associated with each.***

Reminder DO NOT donate through Change.org!!

Signing a petition is just the first step. Remember to follow up with these cases on a weekly or monthly basis. Search for more actions you can take. Do not allow their names to be forgotten.


  1. Demand Sandra Bland's case reopened
  2. Julius Jones is innocent. Don't let him be executed by the state of Oklahoma.
  3. Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery
  4. Justice for Alejandro Martinez who was murdered while walking home from school. No arrests have been made. 
  5. Demand accountability from Portland law enforcement and officials for Tete Gulley who was found hanging from a tree. 
  6. Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!
  7. Free Siyanda who was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison after defending herself. 
  8. Reopen Kendrick Johnson’s Case and demand accountability from investigators
  9. Justice for Emerald Black who was attacked by San Leandro Police Department while pregnant and subsequently miscarried. 
  10. Jamarion Robinson
  11. Indict the Trump Administration & the U.S. government in the United Nations for systemic racial discrimination & killing African-Americans
  12. Demand Justice for Angelese Rock and Shauntae Chambes and demand accountability from Orlando Police
  13. Demand Justice for Maurice Gordon who was killed by New Jersey Police while he waited for a tow truck. 
  14. Demand Justice for Elijah McClain who was murdered by Aurora Police while walking home. 
  15. Demand the release of unedited footage of Jamee Johnson’s murder
  16. Support the family of Kayla Moore, a Black trans woman murdered by Berkeley Police, as they appeal her wrongful death suit
  17. Support Jamarion Robbinson’s family as they seek legal recourse for his brutal murder at the hands of Atlanta Police. 
  18. Demand the closing of Rikers in the name of Layleen Polanco, an Afro-latina trans woman who died in solitary confinement because of a $500 bail. 

Protesting 

Resources for Protestors

  • Protocols for minimizing risk of Covid while demonstrating 
  • Digital safety while protesting (Twitter thread)
  • Resources for documenting police abuse, protesting, and scrubbing data
  • National Lawyers Guild Legal Support Hotlines by Location

Sample Emails and Scripts for Contacting Officials

  • Pre-filled email for Breonna Taylor
  • Defund12.org
  • End Qualified Immunity Congressional Letter
  • Phone Script 1
  • Sample email to elected official
  • Writing your elected officials by ACLU
  • Basic guide to contacting your reps
  • Call script with multiple options

*compiled by Carlisa J. 2020



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