Black Lives Matter Resources

The summer #MMinterns and the MM staff have been working together on ways we can proactively support the #BlackLivesMatter movement. After the recent tragedies and injustices that have occurred, after donating, protesting, amplifying black voices, and posting helpful resources, it is easy to sometimes get to the point where you wonder “What else can I do to help keep this movement going?”

Below, we’ve compiled a list of ways you can support the movement for free, ways you can donate + support black-owned businesses in Boston, and a list of books, podcasts, and documentaries you can consume to educate yourself on the systemic racism in this country, how to understand and talk about it, and how to fight it.

Supporting Black Lives Matter For Free:

Donation Videos to Stream:

One simple way to support the Black Lives Matter movement is through streaming donation videos. Even if the videos are on mute or in the background, 100% of the ad revenue will be donated to advocacy groups and Black Lives Matter.

- How to financially help BLM with NO MONEY/leaving your house
  - a collection of spoken word poetry, music videos, and art from black artists.
- Stream To Donate – 24/7 Hip Hop Music

Petitions to Sign:

- Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Justice for David McAtee
- texting “FLOYD” to 55156
- texting “JUSTICE” to 55156
- texting “ENOUGH” to 5515
- Texting “Tony McDade” to 484848
- Texting “JUSTICE” to 668-366
- Ban the use of rubber bullets
- Reopen Sandra Bland’s case
- Email template: Justice for the murder of Breonna Taylor

Supporting Black Lives Matter By Giving Money:

Black-Owned Businesses that deliver!

- @TheHoneyPotco
  - (Feminine hygiene products)
- @PartakeFoods
  - (Delicious crunchy cookies)
- @oyinhandmade
  - (natural hair and body care)
- @ehoneyskin
  - (skincare)
- @jamandrico
  - (jewelry )
- @bespokebinny
  - (home decor)
- @ivysteaco
  - (tea)
- @omathelabel
  - (clothes and jewelry)
- @thecoycollection
  - ( jewelry and ceramics)

Black-Owned Restaurants/Cafes that deliver!

- Ripple Cafe
  - (Cafe in Dorchester)
- Soleil
  - (American in Roxbury)
- Neighborhood Kitchen
  - (online catering and delivery service in Boston)
- Petsi Pies
  - (bakery in Somerville)
- Rhythm N’ Wraps
  - (vegan food with a beat! Also a food truck!)
- The Coast Cafe
  - (food from the soul in Cambridge, open for more than 16 years and have their own hot sauce!)
- Cafe Juice Up
  - (smoothie bar with a cool storefront in Mattapan)
- Exodus Bagels
  - (local bagel joint in Roslindale)
- Tawakal Halal Cafe
  - (authentic Somali food in East Boston)

Black-Owned Restaurant/Bars/Businesses to support when they reopen!!

- The Beehive
  - (jazzy restaurant and bar in Boston)
- Oasis Vegan Veggie Parlor
  - (Vegan food in Dorchester)
- Fresh Food Generation
  - (Farm-to-Plate Caterer, Food Truck, and Cafe. Caribbean-American Food.)
- District 7 Tavern
  - (local Roxbury bar and pool hall)
- Mida
  - (Italian in south end)
- BRED gourmet
  - (gourmet burgers in Dorchester)
- Frugal Bookstore
  - (bookstore in Roxbury)

Racial Justice Organizations to Donate to:

Black-Led LGBTQ+ Organizations to Donate to:

Resources to Educate on Race:

Books

- When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrice Khan-Cullors
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Black Enough by Ibi Zoboi
- The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor
- As Black as Resistance by Zoe Samudzi
- When Affirmative Action was White by Ira Katznelson
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About
- Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
- Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Who do you serve? Who do you protect? by Alicia Garza, Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price
- Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor

Podcasts

Podcast Episodes

- The Daily: A Weekend of Pain and Protest (June 1, 2020)
- The Daily: The Systems That Protect the Police (June 2, 2020)

Documentaries

TV Shows/Movies

- When They See Us
- American Son
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Fruitvale Station
- Dear White People
- Hidden Figures
- Queen and Slim
- Get Out
- Selma
- Moonlight
- See You Yesterday
- The Hate U Give
- Just Mercy
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Articles, TedTalks, and Other Educational Resources:

- Justice in June
- The Urgency of Intersectionality – Kimberle Crenshaw
- We need to talk about an injustice – Byran Stevenson
- Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis by Linda Villarosa
- Let’s get to the root of racial injustice Ted talk by Megan Ming Francis
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack
- How White Women’s’ Tears Threaten Black Existence by Cameron Glover
- When Feminism Is White Supremacy in Heels by Rachel Cargle
- The Souls of White Folk by Stephen Jamal Leeper
- What do we do with white folks? by Anthony James William
- White People Have No Culture by Lorena Wallace
- White Fragility by The Conscious Kid
- Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: ‘Some Very Fine People on Both Sides’ by Rosie Gray
- Discourse & Debate: Is performative activism inherently bad? by Kayla Abrams
- Amy Cooper, White Spaces, and the Political Projection of Whiteness by Wear Your Voice Magazine
- The White Space by Elijah Anderson

Instagram Accounts to Follow:

Activism

Accounts to follow and educate yourself

Public Figures

Artists

Black-Owned Business Resources

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