Organizations to Follow and Support
ACLU & ACLU Foundation
African American Policy Forum
Antiracism Center:
The mission of the BU Center for Antiracist Research is to convene varied researchers and practitioners to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice. We foster exhaustive racial research, research-based policy innovation, data-driven educational and advocacy campaigns, and narrative-change initiatives. We are working toward building an antiracist society that ensures equity and justice for all.
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The Bail Project
The Bail Project is a nonprofit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system ‒ one person at a time. We believe no one should be in jail because of poverty. We provide free bail assistance, reunite families, and restore the presumption of innocence.
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Black Lives Matter
#BlackLivesMatter is an online forum intended to build connections between Black people and our allies to fight anti-Black racism, to spark dialogue amongst Black people, and to facilitate the types of connections necessary to encourage social action and engagement.
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Black Lives Matter - Nashville Chapter
Black Women’s Blueprint:
Black Women’s Blueprint, Inc. is a civil and human rights organization of women and men. Our purpose is to take action to secure social, political and economic equality in American society now. We work to develop a culture where women of African descent are fully empowered and where gender, race and other disparities are erased. We engage in progressive research, historical documentation, policy advocacy and organize on social justice issues steeped in the struggles of Black women within their communities and within dominant culture.
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The BlackOUT Collective
Color Of Change
ColorOfChange.org designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real. Donation made will go through the c3 and when you donate, you help us take on more winning campaigns, launch more strategic initiatives, and go after the people who are standing in the way of progress—for Black people and all people.
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Colorlines
Colorlines.com is a daily news site offering award-winning reporting, analysis, and solutions to today’s racial justice issues. Colorlines.com is produced by a multiracial team of writers whose daily reporting and analysis serves as a leading voice on a broad range of issues including politics, immigration reform, the economy and jobs. Colorlines.com offers readers the opportunity to take action on these issues through its Action channel.
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COMMUNITY JUSTICE ACTION FUND
The Conscious Kid:
The Conscious Kid is an education, research and policy organization dedicated to reducing bias and promoting positive identity development in youth. We partner with organizations, children’s museums, schools, and families across the country to promote access to children’s books centering underrepresented and oppressed groups.
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Eat for Equity - Help them ‘feed the revolution’
Eat for Equity builds a culture of generosity through sustainable community feasts. We are a nonprofit that organizes regular benefit dinners, engaging communities to eat, drink, give what they can - and together, raise thousands of dollars for a greater cause.
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Equal Justice Initiative (EJI):
The Equity Alliance
The Equity Alliance proactively advocates for African Americans and other communities of color to have a fair and just opportunity at realizing the American dream. We are a Nashville-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization that seeks to equip citizens with tools and strategies to engage in the civic process and empower them to take action on issues affecting their daily lives.
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Families Belong Together:
Families Belong Together includes nearly 250 organizations representing Americans from all backgrounds who have joined together to permanently end family separation and detention, and promote dignity, unity, and compassion for all children and families.
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Indivisible - Find your local chapter
The Innocence Project
The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. More than 350 people in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing, including 38 who pleaded guilty to crimes they did not commit and 20 who served time on death row. The Innocence Project provided direct representation or critical assistance in more than 200 exonerations.
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Justice League NYC:
The Gathering for Justice is a social justice organization founded by Harry Belafonte in 2005. The Gathering’s newest initiative, Justice League NYC, is a task force of youth justice activists, advocates and artists who have joined forces to contribute to awakening our moral and community conscious on issues negatively impacting society. Justice League NYC has begun a multi-stage mobilization engaging communities in New York's boroughs around the issue of juvenile justice reform.
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Know Your Rights Camp
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights:
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States. Through advocacy and outreach to targeted constituencies, The Leadership Conference works toward the goal of a more open and just society – an America as good as its ideals.
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Movement for Black Lives
The Movement for Black Lives:Build. Heal. Learn. Organize. Black people from across the country led a wave of resistance that spread around the world. A new chapter is being written in our long journey towards liberation. Our people demand a collective vision that matches the intensity, scale, urgency, and promise of the moment. Open, and created by many voices, The Movement for Black Lives Convening is a space to realize that promise fully on our terms as Black people.
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MPowerChange:
MPower Change is an online and offline organizing platform to build grassroots Muslim power while advancing social, spiritual, racial, & economic justice for all people. MPower Change is a grassroots organizing movement rooted in diverse Muslim communities throughout the United States who are working together to build social, spiritual, racial, and economic justice for all people
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Muslim Girl:
NAACP:
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America's premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 70 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments.
National Bail Out
National Domestic Workers Alliance:
The National Domestic Workers Alliance is an organization run by and for the women who care for this country as nannies, housecleaners, and caregivers. We are Black, we are women of color, we are immigrants. We are uniting so that all workplaces are safe and dignified. We lead the Families Belong Together campaign, where we're fighting to reunite families, stop Trump's family separations, and seek accountability for the harm that's been done to children and families at the border.
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National Equity Project
The mission of the National Equity Project, formerly the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools, is to dramatically improve educational experiences, outcomes, and life options for students and families who have been historically underserved by their schools and districts.
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National MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans. To date, the Museum has collected more than 36,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 individuals have become members. The Museum opened to the public on September 24, 2016, as the 19th and newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
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National URBAN LEAGUE
The National Urban League (www.nul.org) is a historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization dedicated to economic empowerment in historically underserved urban communities. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in New York City, the National Urban League has improved the lives of tens of millions of people nationwide through direct service programs that are implemented locally by its 88 Urban League a liates in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The organization also conducts public policy research and advocacy activities from its Washington, D.C. bureau. responsibility and other best practices.
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RAICES:
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ):
Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships, skills, and political analysis to act for change.
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SisterSong:
The mission of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective is to strengthen and amplify the collective voices of Indigenous women and women of color so that we may secure our human rights, and thus achieve reproductive justice. We fight equally for the right to bear – or not to bear – a child, along with the subsequent and necessary enabling conditions to realize these rights.
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Southern Poverty and Law Center
Dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of social justice and equal opportunity will become a reality.
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We Are a Family Foundation // Youth To The Front Fund
We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) is committed to fighting systemic racism, inequality, inequity and injustice. WAFF created the Youth to the Front Fund (YTTFF) to support and fund under 30-year-old BIPOC youth activists, youth-led organizations, projects, innovations and creative solutions that are at the forefront of fighting systemic racism, inequality, inequity and injustice in the United States and around the world. The growing six-figure fund is not a one-off response to George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent global outrage, but rather an ongoing sustainable commitment.
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United We Dream:
To achieve equal access to higher education for all people, regardless of immigration status. We aim to address the inequities and obstacles faced by immigrant youth and to develop a sustainable, grassroots movement, led by immigrant youth, documented and undocumented, and children of immigrants. We use leadership development, organizing, policy advocacy, alliance building, training and capacity building to pursue our mission at the local, state and national levels.
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BLACK LGBTQIA+ LIVES MATTER
AUDRE LORDE PROJECT
The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color center for community organizing. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to struggling across differences, we seek to responsibly reflect, represent and serve our various communities.
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BLACK LGBTQIA + MIGRANT PROJECT
BLMP envisions a world where no one is forced to give up their homeland, where all Black LGBTQIA+ people are free and liberated. We build and center the power of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants to ensure the liberation of all Black people through community-building, political education, creating access to direct services, and organizing across borders. Led by a directly impacted steering committee and staff and housed at the Transgender Law Center and, we build power, community, and knowledge in the U.S., while challenging the role the U.S. plays globally in creating the conditions that force us to leave our homes.
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BLACK TRANS FEMMES IN THE ARTS
The mission of the BTFA Collective is to connect the community of black trans women and non-binary femmes in the arts & to build power among ourselves.
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BLACK TRANS TRAVEL FUND
The Black Trans Travel Fund is a mutual-aid based organization committed to uplifting the narratives and supporting the livelihoods of Black trans women. Launched in June of 2019, BTTF was developed for the purpose of providing Black transgender women with the financial resources needed to be able to self-determine and access safer alternatives to travel, where women feel less likely to experience verbal harassment or physical harm. We are proud to have already redistributed over $60,000 to Black trans women in need! BTTF was created out of direct response to the relentless and unacceptable violence Black transgender women across the country have been continuously experiencing.
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FOR THE GWORLS’ RENT AND GENDER-AFFIRMING SURGERY FUND
For the Gworls’ Rent and Gender-Affirming Surgery Fund accepts applications from Black, transgender people nationwide. With this fund, we actively fight to reduce homelessness rates in the Black transgender community, as well as lower the risk for affirmative surgeries being done in ways that put them at greater health risks. Now more than ever, this work is especially important considering that many Black transgender people are being laid off in absurdly high numbers, which is only exacerbating the already terrible conditions that Black transgender people generally live in.
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LGBTQ FREEDOM FUND
WE FIGHT THE MASS JAILING OF LGBTQ PEOPLE. Each day, tens of thousands of LGBTQ people are held in jail or immigration detention because they cannot afford bail—for immigration status or charges like sleeping in public. With your help, the LGBTQ Freedom Fund posts bail to secure their release and safety. In tandem, we raise awareness of the epidemic of LGBTQ over-incarceration. We strive towards a critical mass against mass detention.
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THE MARSHA P. JOHNSON INSTITUTE
Marsha P. Johnson was an activist, self-identified drag queen, performer, and survivor. She was a prominent figure in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Marsha went by “Black Marsha” before settling on Marsha P. Johnson. The “P” stood for “Pay It No Mind,” which is what Marsha would say in response to questions about her gender. It is the consideration of who “Black Marsha” was that inspired The Marsha P. Johnson Institute. So much of our understanding of Marsha came from the accounts of people who did not look like or come from the same place as her. As transness is now more accessible to the world, introducing the Institute to BLACK trans people who are resisting, grappling with survival, and looking for community has become a clear need.
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NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COALITION
The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS.
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THE OKRA PROJECT
The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them.
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TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR COLLECTIVE
Historically, Black and Brown trans folk have been the catalyst of change for social justice movements. Historically, we have been discarded, counted out and left behind by many who are trusted with our care. Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC) was created to cultivate economic opportunities and affirming spaces for trans people of color and our families, to foster kinship, build community engage in healing and restorative justice through arts, culture, media, advocacy and activism. We celebrate our lives through art, culture, activism and economic growth.
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VOTING MATTERS
POLICE REFORM
Funders for Justice - Organizations Addressing Police Reform and Injustice // National and by State
YOUTH
SOURCES
#BlackOutTuesday List for Anti-Racism Awareness
Where to Donate for In Support of Black Lives and Communities of Color