Websites of BLM Affiliated Groups
Black Alliance for Just Immigration.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Websites of the originators of the BLM hashtag
Other Resources
Cross Cultural Solidarity: The Uprisings of 2020.
Movement 4 Black Lives policy platforms.
Malcolm Teller: The Black Lives Matter Reference Guide.
Books
Elizabeth Alexander: The Trayvon Generation.
Marcus Board Jr.: Invisible Weapons: Infiltrating Resistance and Defeating Movements.
Jelani Cobb & David Remnick (editors): The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker.
Patrisse Cullors & asha bandele: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.
Alicia Garza: The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart.
Christopher J. Lebron: The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea.
Wesley Lowery: They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement.
Donna Murch: Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives.
Barbara Ransby: Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.
Selected Articles
Say Burgin: Black Lives Matter, Black Power, and the Role of White Allies.
Sean Campbell: Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6 Million House: Allies and critics alike have questioned where the organization’s money has gone.
Jelani Cobb:
- The Matter of Black Lives: A new kind of movement found its moment. What will its future be?
- A Movement Grows in Ferguson.
Matthew F. Delmont: Policy and Possibility in the Movement for Black Lives Platform.
Gerald Horne: A Global Vision for Black Lives.
Jenn M. Jackson:
- Black Lives Matter: Not a Moment, But a Movement.
- #SayHerName–Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie.
- Multiple and Interlocking: Black Lives Matter as a Lens.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Black Lives Matter: A Legacy of Black Power Protest.
Ellen E. Jones: Opal Tometi, co-founder of Black Lives Matter: ‘I do this because we deserve to live’.
Peniel Joseph: The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives.
New York Magazine: 10 Years Since Trayvon: The story of the first decade of Black Lives Matter.
Barbara Ransby:
- Black Lives Matter Is Democracy in Action.
- MLK Called for a “Radical Revolution of Values.” The Movement for Black Lives Delivers One. 50 years ago today, King blasted militarism, racism and poverty in his “Beyond Vietnam” speech. The new Beyond the Moment campaign carries forward his radical vision.
- A reporter on the front lines of police killings of African Americans.
- The Class Politics of Black Lives Matter: To seek liberation for black people is also to destabilize inequality in the United States at large, and to create new possibilities for all who live here.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor:
- A Black Lives Matter Founder on Building Modern Movements: In a new book, Alicia Garza writes, “We can’t be afraid to establish a base that is larger than the people we feel comfortable with.”
- Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?
Opal Tometi (interviewed by Isaac Chotiner): A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Explains Why This Time Is Different.