Black Lives Matter
This page links to resources that will help you learn more about the Black Lives Matter movement, and their work in eliminating racial oppression. The page is broken down into the following categories:
Introductory Issues: Abolition, Activism, Advocacy, Anti-Bias Education, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Climate Civil Disobedience, Coalition, Collective Liberation, Community Oversight, Disability Rights, Economic Justice, Environmentalism, Equity, Fair Housing, Health Care, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, Inclusion, Indigenous Peoples, Implicit Bias, Intersectional Feminism, Gender Justice, Land Reparations, LGBTQIA+, Political Power, Prison Reform, Protest, Revolution, Social Movements, Reparations, Reproductive Justice, Restorative Justice, Water Protectors, Workers' Rights
Video Clips
Source: AJ+ (2020, July 15). "Can't Shop, Can't Swim, Can't Walk Home" - A Black Lives Matter Poem. YouTube. https://youtu.be/wFPBt5ZDA28
Source: Channel 4 News. (2020 June 15). Black Lives Matter explained: The history of a movement. YouTube. https://youtu.be/YG8GjlLbbvs
Source: AJ+ (2022, March 2). How To Stop The ‘Dirtiest’ Oil On The Planet. YouTube. https://youtu.be/rqkbCSINWjE
Source: AJ+. (2021, April 1). Asian Americans Have A Long History Of Activism In The US. YouTube. https://youtu.be/XZr1DzaMmiI
Source: AJ+ (2015, May 21). Black Women Killed By Police Are Being Forgotten #SayHerName. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxbfvVgojs
Source: Democracy Now! (2021, November 23). Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 Project, "Teaching Critical Race Theory and White Supremacy on Trial. YouTube. https://youtu.be/HXmaEJ3Yd_I
Source: Time. (2021, March 10). Raquel Willis | TIME's "Voices Of The Future" Women's Summit. YouTube.https://youtu.be/0-5Q8aAXmkI
Source: MSNBC (2015, February 20). Queerness on the Frontlines of #BlackLivesMatter. YouTube. https://youtu.be/0YHs9jIH-oo
Source: Vox. (2020, August 31). What Black Lives Matter means to an 11-year-old. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muy5zpqslRc
Source: Vox. (2020, July 26). What "defund the police" really means. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9w841nrIBg
Source.NowThis News. (2020, July 22). Essential Workers 'Strike for Black Lives' & Racial Justice. YouTube. https://youtu.be/EJ6HvPm2hX8
Books
Social Media
Podcasts
Takeaway
Episode: Cop City
At Liberty
Episode: The Politics of Pleasure
Consider This
Episode: Taking Stock of What George Floyd's Murder – And Life – Have Changed, Two Years Later
At Liberty
Episode: Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham on Building a Lasting Movement
TransLash
Episode: A New Black Trans Civil Rights Agenda
At Liberty
Episode: How Reproductive Justice Is Part of an Anti-Racist Agenda
Nancy
Episode: Black Trans Lives Matter
At Liberty
Episode: A Trans Organizer on the Movement to Decriminalize Sex Work
At Liberty
Episode: Judy Heumann on Disability Discrimination and The Fight For Rights
Articles
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- (2023) Atlanta protest over police killing of activist turns violent | NPR
- (2023) The Crackdown on Cop City Protesters Is So Brutal Because of the Movement’s Success | Intercept
- (2020) Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People | New York Times
- (2020) Black Abolitionist Network stages rally to kick off campaign to defund Chicago Police Department | Hyde Park Herald
- (2020) Here Are the 100 U.S. Cities Where Protesters Were Tear-Gassed | New York Times
- (2020) Essential Workers Hold Walkouts And Protests In National Strike for Black Lives | NPR
- (2020) ‘I Believe in Black Trans Power’: 15,000 Protestors Showed Up for a Consistently Marginalized Community | Vogue
- (2021) 'Now The World Gets To See The Difference': BLM Protesters On The Capitol Attack | NPR
- (2023) Cop City Goes National | Intercept
- (2022) The Great Erasure| New York Times
- (2021) Black Lives Matter Fights Disinformation To Keep The Movement Strong| NPR;
- (2022) Taking Stock of What George Floyd's Murder – And Life – Have Changed, Two Years Later | NPR
- (2021) A Black Lives Matter Founder on Building Modern Movements | New Yorker
- (2020) Black Trans Women Seek More Space in the Movement They Helped Start | New York Times
- (2018) Capturing the Struggle for Racial Equality, Past and Present | New York Times
- (2020) How a New Wave of Black Activists Changed the Conversation | New York Magazine
- (2015) ‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us’ | New York Magazine
- (2020) What Black Lives Matter Has Revealed About Small-Town America | New York Times
- (2018) When They Call You A Terrorist: Courageous Conversation Between Angela Davis and Patrisse Khan-Cullors | Bust
- (2023) Cop City Goes National| Intercept
- (2021) As New Police Reform Laws Sweep Across the U.S., Some Ask: Are They Enough? | New York Times
- (2021) A Year After ‘Defund,’ Police Departments Get Their Money Back | New York Times
- (2023) Philadelphia Will Pay $9.25 Million to Racial Justice Protesters Brutalized by Police in 2020| Democracy Now
- (2021) 'Defund' or Reform? Experts Debate How to Reimagine Policing | New York Times
- (2021) Illinois becomes first state to end cash bail as part of criminal justice reform law | NBC News
- (2022) New Jersey expands police partnership with mental health screeners | CBS News
- (2020) New Breonna Taylor Law Will Ban No-Knock Warrants in Louisville, Ky. | New York Times
- (2021) Police Violence And Reform: The Inequality In Restorative Justice Opportunities | NPR
- (2021) Where Efforts To Overhaul Policing Stand In Congress After Chauvin Verdict | NPR
- (2021) Movement for Black Lives opposes George Floyd Justice in Policing Act | PBS News Hour
- (2020) The Power of Community Bail Funds | New York Times
- (2023) Canada Settles $2 Billion Suit Over ‘Cultural Genocide’ at Residential Schools| New York Times
- (2021) Affordable Housing Forever | New York Times
- (2022) The simplest, most revolutionary approach to ending poverty | Vox
- (2021) America’s racist housing rules really can be fixed | Vox
- (2023) San Francisco proposes reparations, includes $5 million for eligible Black people| PBS NewsHour
- (2022) How Chris Smalls Beat Amazon | New York Times
- (2020) A Call For Reparations: How America Might Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap | NPR
- (2021) First-In-The-Nation Effort Advances Debate Over What Form Reparations Should Take | NPR
- (2021) How the 1st US city to fund reparations for Black residents is making amends | ABC News
- (2021) How John Deere is helping Black farmers and their descendents take back unjustly seized land | CNN
- (2018) Justice in the factory: how Black Lives Matter breathed new life into unions | Gaurdian
- (2022) Efforts to unionize workers has taken off across the country| NPR
- (2020) To Reduce Racial Inequality, Raise the Minimum Wage | New York Times
- (2021) Repairing America: Exploring Fight for Reparations, Racial Justice Across the Country | USA Today
- (2019) Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations | The New Yorker
- (2020) These Moms Fought for a Home—And Started a Movement | Vogue
- (2021) The U.S.D.A. will begin making debt relief payments to minority farmers in June. | New York Times
- (2020) Effective Anti-Racist Education Requires More Diverse Teachers, More Training | NPR
- (2020) Funneling Our Children From Classrooms to Cages Ends Now | Medium
- (2021) How school funding can help repair the legacy of segregation | Vox
- (2020) How Should Schools Hold Students Accountable for Hurting Others? | New York Times
- (2021) School infrastructure should be treated as a human rights issue | Prism
- (2020) Want to Support Black Students? Invest in Black Teachers | Time
- (2020) Why There's A Push To Get Police Out Of Schools | NPR
- (2020) Why U.S. Schools Are Still Segregated — And One Idea To Help Change That | NPR
- (2022) The US activists holed up in treehouses to block $90m ‘Cop City’ | Gaurdian
- (2022) A California redwood forest has officially been returned to a group of Native tribes | NPR
- (2020) Communities Suffering from Pollution Demand Justice | The Intercept
- (2022) 3 tribes dealing with the toll of climate change get $75 million to relocate | NPR
- (2019) Five Environmental Justice Activists On The Roots and Future of The Movement | Color Lines
- (2020) Indigenous people across the US want their land back -- and the movement is gaining momentum | CNN
- (2020) Intersectional Environmentalism: A Crash Course | Medium
- (2021) The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Officially Dead | Buzzfeed News
- (2020) Meet the BIPOC Farmers Cultivating Green Spaces in NYC | Teen Vogue
- (2020) Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back. | New York Magazine
- (2021) ‘One Property at a Time’: A City Tries to Revive Without Gentrifying | New York Times
- (2021) Brazil’s Indigenous Groups Mount Unprecedented Protest Against Destruction of the Amazon| Intercept
- (2021) The Fight Against the Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota| Jacobin
- (2022) No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution | New York Times
- (2022) Abortion is also about racial justice, experts and advocates say | NPR
- (2020) 5 Ways the Health-Care System Can Stop Amplifying Racism | The Atlantic
- (2020) Abolition Must Include Psychiatry | Disability Visibility Project
- (2020) Activist Laura Jiménez on Reproductive Violence | Color Lines
- (2020) Black Lives Matter in Medicine: What Must Change? Johns Hopkins Medicine
- (2014) How to Help 55 Million People Out of Food Deserts | Yes Magazine
- (2020) Our system is not built to serve everyone equally": Doctors push for an end to racial discrimination in health care | CBS News
- (2021) Psychiatry Confronts Its Racist Past, and Tries to Make Amends | New York Times
- (2021) Trying To Avoid Racist Health Care, Black Women Seek Out Black Obstetricians | NPR
- (2020) Value-Based Health Care Must Value Black Lives | Health Affairs
- (2020) What Defunding Police Means for Mental Health Care | Teen Vogue
- (2021) Why Black Women Are Rejecting Hospitals in Search of Better Births | New York Times
- (2020) Why the Virus Is a Civil Rights Issue: ‘The Pain Will Not Be Shared Equally’ | New York Times
- (2022) Immigrant advocates call latest SCOTUS ruling 'a very small win' | CBS
- (2021) Immigrant Detention For Profit Faces Resistance After Big Expansion Under Trump | NPR
- (2020) A Public Defender’s Lonely Fight Against Family Separation | Intercept
- (2021) The Reality Behind Biden’s Plan to Legalize 11 Million Immigrants | New York Times
- (2021) Rights Groups Call for End to Repressive, Invasive Technologies in Immigration Practices | Democracy Now
- (2021) 8 first-term House members explain how they plan to prioritize racial justice | Vox
- (2021) BREATHE Act aims to reduce Police Violence| Vox
- (2021) Cherokee Nation Strikes Down Language That Limits Citizenship Rights 'By Blood' | NPR
- (2020) The Future of Black Politics | Jessica Byrd
- (2021) Justice Department Affirms Title IX Protects LGBTQ+ Students From Discrimination | them.us
- (2021) Pressley, Warren, and Lee reintroduce bill to fight racism in public health | Vox
- (2021) Rep. Cori Bush wants to transform policing and public safety with new bill | NBC News
- (2021) Trump gutted Obama-era housing discrimination rules. Biden’s bringing them back. | Washington Post
Scholarship
- (2018) Disciplining Black Activism: Post-Racial Rhetoric, Public Memory and Decorum in News Media Framing of the Black Lives Matter Movement | by Chloe Banks
- (2019) Framing police and protesters: assessing volume and framing of news coverage post-Ferguson, and corresponding impacts on legislative activity. | Maneesh Arora
- (2021) No Justice! Black Protests? No Peace: The Racial Nature of Threat Evaluations of Nonviolent #BlackLivesMatter Protests | Periloux C. Peay
- (2017) Prayer, Protest, and Police Brutality: Black Muslim Spiritual Resistance in the Ferguson Era. | Donna Auston
- (2021) Protest Coverage Matters: How Media Framing and Visual Communication Affects Support for Black Civil Rights Protests | Danielle Kilgo
- (2018) Racialized Surveillance: Activist Media and the Policing of Black Bodies. | Gino, Canella
- (2017) Recounting Racism, Resistance, and Repression: Examining the Experiences and #Hashtag Activism of College Students with Critical Race Theory and Counternarratives | Rema Reynolds
- (2020) Restraining the Political through Stay-Away Orders: The Case of Occupy Oakland. | Emily Brissette
- (2020) Revealing the Black Female Aesthetic Through Protest Photojournalism | Tara Pixley
- (2020) Scenes of resurrection: Black Lives Matter, die-ins, and the here and now of queer futurity. | Jesse A. Goldberg
- (2020) 'We always knew it was possible': The long fight against symbols of white supremacy in New Orleans. | Mary Niall Mitchell
- (2023) Say their names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd | Henry Wu
- (2021) #BLACKLIVESMATTER: From Protest to Policy | Jamillah Bowman Williams
- (2019) Abolition and Reparation: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice and Accountability |
- (2019) #BlackLivesMatter: Innovative Black Resistance | by Jozie Nummi
- (2018) Disciplining Black Activism: Post-Racial Rhetoric, Public Memory and Decorum in News Media Framing of the Black Lives Matter Movement | by Chloe Banks
- (2015) Intersectional Mobilization, Social Movement Spillover, and Queer Youth Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement. | Veronica Terriquez
- (2019) Race and Visibility: How and Why Visual Images of Black Lives Matter. | Candice L. Edrington
- (2018) “Thank You, Black Twitter”: State Violence, Digital Counterpublics, and Pedagogies of Resistance. | Marc Lamont Hill
- (2022) Assessing the impact of de‐escalation training on police behavior: Reducing police use of force in the Louisville, KY Metro Police Department | Robin Engel
- (2023) Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs| Maren Spolum
- (2021) Abolition: A New Paradigm for Reform. | Marina Bell
- (2021) What Works and What Doesn’t When Policing People with Mental Health Issues | Jerry Flores
- (2021) Justice-restoring responses: a theoretical framework for understanding citizen complaints against the police | Kyle McLean
- (2019) Envisioning Abolition Democracy | Allegra McLeod
- (2020) Expanding the Definition of Dignity: the case for broad criminal justice reform that accounts for gender disparities | Lindsey Linder
- (2017) How Qualified Immunity Fails | Joanna C. Schwartz
- (2020) Lessons from #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter: Changing Narratives in the Courtroom | Kaela R. Dunn
- (2018) Reducing Racial Inequalities in Adulthood Arrest by Reducing Inequalities in School Discipline: Evidence From the School-to-Prison Pipeline | by J.C. Barnes
- (2018) Toward a Just Model of Pretrial Release: A History of Bail Reform and a Prescription for What's Next | by Alexa Van Brunt
- (2017) Unspoken Immunity and Reimagined Justice: The Potential for Implementing Restorative Justice and Community Justice Models in Police-related Shootings. | Hannah Walker
- (2019) Abolition and Reparation: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice and Accountability | Patrisse Cullors
- (2020) Assemblage, food justice, and intersectionality in rural Mississippi: the Oktibbeha Food Policy Council. | Diego Thompson
- (2019) Economic Vulnerability Among US Female Health Care Workers: Potential Impact of a $15-per-Hour Minimum Wage | Kathryn E. W. Himmelstein
- (2015) Estimating Slavery Reparations: Present Value Comparisons of Historical Multigenerational Reparations Policies | Thomas Craemer
- (2020) Universal Baby Bonds Reduce Black-White Wealth Inequality, Progressively Raise Net Worth of All Young Adults | Zewde Naomi.
- (2020) Culturally Responsive Restorative Discipline. | Hilary Lustick
- (2018) Desegregation Policy as Social Justice Leadership?: The Case for Critical Consciousness and Racial Literacy. | Sharon Radd
- (2012) Environmental Justice at School: Understanding Research, Policy, and Practice to Improve Our Children's Health | by Natalie Sampson
- (2019) Intersectionality in the Classroom: Black Lives Matter as a Consummate Example. | Leland Spencer
- (2018) Nudging the Gap: Introduction to the Special Issue "Closing in on Discipline Disproportionality. | Jessika H. Bottiani
- (2021) A Pedagogy of Insurgency: Teaching and Organizing for Radical Racial Justice in Our Schools. | Wayne Au
- (2017) Recounting Racism, Resistance, and Repression: Examining the Experiences and #Hashtag Activism of College Students with Critical Race Theory and Counternarratives | Rema Reynolds
- (2018) Reducing Racial Inequalities in Adulthood Arrest by Reducing Inequalities in School Discipline: Evidence From the School-to-Prison Pipeline | by J.C. Barnes
- (2018) Rethinking environmental science education from indigenous knowledge perspectives: an experience with a Dene First Nation community. | Ranjan Kumar Datta
- (2020) Viewpoint: 'When black lives matter all lives will matter' - A teacher and three students discuss the BLM movement. | Ann Phoenix
- (2018) “What’s Going On?”: A Critical Race Theory Perspective on Black Lives Matter and Activism in Education. | Adrienne D. Dixson,
- (2004) Anticolonial Strategies for the Recovery and Maintenance of Indigenous Knowledge | Leanne Simpson
- (2020) Assemblage, food justice, and intersectionality in rural Mississippi: the Oktibbeha Food Policy Council. | Diego Thompson
- (2015) Beyond the “Ecological Indian”: Environmental Politics and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Modern North America | Gregory D. Smithers
- (2018) Environmental Injustice: "We Have to Breathe" | Ronald Traylor
- (2020) Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making. | Robert Bullard
- (2018) Environmental Justice Meets the Right to Stay Put: Mobilising Against Environmental Racism, Gentrification, and Xenophobia in Chicago's Little Village. | by Leslie Kern
- (2015) Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods | by Isabelle Anguelovski
- (2020) The Importance of Inclusion in the Environmental Movement | Journal of International Affairs
- (2018) Perceived Benefits of Participation and Risks of Soil Contamination in St. Louis Urban Community Gardens | Roger Wong
- (2016) A Policy Approach Toward Climate Justice. | Jalonne Lynay White-Newsome
- (2015) The Price of Pollution: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Mossville, Louisiana. | Revathi Hines
- (2019) “We Need New Stories”: Trauma, Storytelling, and the Mapping of Environmental Injustice in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms and Standing Rock | Summer Harrison
- (2020) The Abolition or Reform of Mental Health Law: How Should the Law Recognise and Respond to the Vulnerability of Persons with Mental Impairment? | Kay E. Wilson
- (2020) Advancing mental health equality: a mapping review of interventions, economic evaluations and barriers and facilitators. | Laura-Louise Arundell
- (2021) Critical consciousness of anti-Black racism: A practical model to prevent and resist racial trauma | Della V. Mosley
- (2019) Healing Ethno-Racial Trauma in Latinx Immigrant Communities: Cultivating Hope, Resistance, and Action | Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas
- (2018) Improving the Mental Health Outcomes of LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults: A Longitudinal Study. | Kirstin R. Painter
- (2020) Land-Based Intervention: a Qualitative Study of the Knowledge and Practices Associated with One Approach to Mental Health in a Cree Community. | Russ Walsh
- (2020) The Next Step in Integrated Care: Universal Primary Mental Health Providers. | Adrienne A. Williams
- (2014) “Racism Still Exists”: A Public Health Intervention Using Racism “Countermarketing” Outdoor Advertising in a Black Neighborhood| by Naa Oyo A. Kwate
- (2016) Reclaiming the White Coat for Black Lives. | by Amy Garvey
- (2020) Repositioning Cultural Competency with Clinical Doctoral Students: Unpacking Intersectionality, Standpoint Theory, and Multiple Minority Stress/Resilience. | Chana Etengoff
- (2018) Restoring Optimal Black Mental Health and Reversing Intergenerational Trauma in an Era of Black Lives Matter. | Jameta Nicole Barlow
- (2020) Strategies to establish and maintain trust when working in immigrant communities | Karen T. D'Alonzo
- (2016) Contesting Structural Vulnerability through Reproductive Justice Activism with Latina Immigrants in California. | Patricia Zavella
- (2020) The Health of Undocumented Latinx Immigrants: What We Know and Future Directions | India J. Ornelas
- (2015) Intersectional Mobilization, Social Movement Spillover, and Queer Youth Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement. | Veronica Terriquez
- (2020) Protective Factors to the Wellbeing of Undocumented Latinx Immigrants in the United States: A Socio-Ecological Approach. | Luz Garcini
- (2020) Strategies to establish and maintain trust when working in immigrant communities | Karen T. D'Alonzo
- (2021) U.S. Empire and an Immigrant's Counternarrative: Conceptualizing Imperial Privilege. | Laura C. Chávez-Moreno
- (2018) Challenging and Preventing Policies That Prohibit Local Civil Rights Protections for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People | by Jennifer L. Pomeranz
- (2017) Complexity's Shadow: American Indian Property, Sovereignty, and the Future | Jessica A. Shoemaker
- (2000) Ensuring the Full Freedom of Religion on Public Lands: Devils Tower and the Protection of Indian Sacred Sites | George Linge
- (2020) Rebuilding Trust: Climate Change, Indian Communities, and a Right to Resettlement. | Scott W. Stern
