The Black Lives Matter Movement.

Resources to help educate yourself on the issues surrounding Black Lives and the injustices they face everyday.

• Black Lives Matter Movement.
  
  

  The Black Lives Matter movement started as a call to action to end the long systematic racism and demise of Black people. Members of this spacious movement fight for the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, undocumented folks, folks with records, women, and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. Philando Castile, Eric Garner and George Floyd. The deaths of these Black men at the hands of police have fueled outrage over police brutality and systemic racism. Men make up the vast majority of people shot and killed by police.The movement centers to help those who have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.

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• #Say Her Name Campaign.
  
  

  The campaign was launched in December 2014 by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS). The campaigns campaign brings awareness to the invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who are victims of racist police violence. By doing so, they provide support to the families of these victims and fight for justice. Black women’s bodies and lives are disproportionately subject to police violence. To be able to lift up their stories and illuminate police violence against Black women knowing their names, how they lived, and why they suffered at the hands of police is very important.

  The Say Her Name campaign, created by Crenshaw's group in 2014, is meant to include women in the national conversation about race and policing. A few women's names and stories, such as Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by Louisville, Ky., police executing a no-knock search warrant in March, have been part of the Black Lives Matter movement. But others have not — women such as Michelle Cusseaux and Kayla Moore.

  In 2014, Cusseaux was shot by police in her Phoenix home while they were attempting to take her to a mental health facility. In 2013, police were called because Moore was having a mental health crisis in her Berkeley, Calif., home, but she stopped breathing after being restrained.

  Furthermore, the Say Her Name raises awareness by insisting that we say their names because if we can say their names we can know more about their stories.

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• Why we fight.
  
  

  For the last few years, large numbers of our people have been out in the streets, engaging in powerful and necessary direct action, and fighting for the lives of our people. By organising peaceful protests, the intentions of the members of these communities is to seek for justice and fight for the lives of innocents and the oppressed. Black Lives Matter began as a call to action in response to state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism. Our intention from the very beginning was to connect Black people from all over the world who have a shared desire for justice to act together in their communities.

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• Ways To help if you wish to help the movement.
  
  

  - Support programs that support racial justice and equality.
  - Donate to help protestors.
  - Help black families who have lost loved ones in killings.
  - Sign petitions.
  - Support black-owned businesses.
  - Volunteer.
  - Educate yourself and have difficult conversations.
  
  To Participate.



• Books you could read.

  The Hate U Give By Angie thomas
  
  
  Dear Martin By Nic Stone
  
  
  On The Come Up By Angie Thomas