Black Lives Matter!

​

Below is a compiled list of links to documents and resources regarding the Black Lives Matter movement. Do your bit by learning, unlearning, voicing and supporting. 

​

Also detailed are resources to learn about the crisis taking place in Yemen, alongside donation links. We cannot choose to ignore this.

​

This document does not account for everything that there is to do, below are linked a list of very comprehensive documents that everyone should take the time to go through:

​

• https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/  

• https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync 

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/11JZ3Y0YD_ctqZyyRvR826SBQC7R_r9xtC2oTEacNP9M/mobilebasic?usp=gmail  

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/11DKdCd4AUmwcG6igDLz9rlYJcdrJzGP6cmy3s7gNgDQ/mobilebasic 

• https://dialecticalartist.wordpress.com/politicalresources/  

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x65xLdIUDWMUl4_nkuD-EeP98UuJ2nuknUDsqUm7R9s/htmlview?pru=AAABcq5NMYo*i2r61hJkB6UIi517OrqHCA#gid=1386834576 

• Addressing crisis in Yemen: https://yemencrisis.carrd.co/ & https://linktr.ee/taiyba

​

If you can't protest:

​

• https://gal-dem.com/what-to-do-if-you-cant-protest-on-the-streets-for-black-lives-matter/?utm_source=bustle&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0QSE2xoA_D1HHWUrRsEifDsiRmoIIB0321dT12ZITVR2BIilF4-HYG6ik

​

If you can't donate:

​

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKo8OrBdLz8

​

Funds we will be donating to from money collected:

​

The collections will be split evenly across:

​

• https://www.gofundme.com/f/ukblm-fund

• https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-minds-matter-uk

• https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-lgbtqia-therapy-fund

• https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-free-black-university

• https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet

• https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-trans-lives-matter-uk-support

• https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project

• https://www.islamic-relief.org/category/appeals/emergencies/yemen-crisis-appeal/

• https://pennyappeal.org/appeal/yemen-crisis

• https://www.unicef.org.uk/donate/rohingya-refugees/

​

More funds can be found in the various documents linked at the top of the page.

​

Petitions:

​

Only a handful and focused on petitions that have lower numbers of signatures. Also primary focus on what can be done in the UK.

​

• UK government petitions, UK government doesn’t recognise change.org even when number of signatures are so high: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality  

• UK gov petition to make it compulsory to teach UK's colonial past in schools: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092 

• Racism in UAL: http://chng.it/B7JYNqHNn2 

• Black trans women: https://www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-more-protection-for-black-trans-women-uk 

• Defund the police: https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/

• Ban UK sale of rubber bullets, tear gas, riot shields to US: http://chng.it/Ns2Kn2xNCh 

• De-colonize UK education: https://www.change.org/p/department-of-education-decolonize-the-uk-education-system 

• Hands up act: http://chng.it/Hx86QMSMmV 

• Save Nour: http://chng.it/L4RCFpSW55

• Statues: http://chng.it/PDdxt79Zxh  

• Tamir Rice: http://chng.it/vxbNLNFq2p  

• Angel Bumpass: http://chng.it/Dzx6KP9H6B  

• Elijah Nichols: http://chng.it/gVnbVK295K  

• David McAtee: http://chng.it/dy24KRYhPb  

• Sandra Bland: http://chng.it/XGwNN7Ffr8  

• Alejandro Vardas Martinez: http://chng.it/Z7JYRQhpsT  

• Andile Mchunu: http://chng.it/HqwLHRXry6 

• Jennifer Jeffley: http://chng.it/wXTFJpf2Sj 

• Cameron Lamb: http://chng.it/y7X27JRMRd  

• James Scurlock: http://chng.it/vcz2pXCHqX  

• Philando Castile: http://chng.it/XVqvtwM4tG  

• Willie Simmons: http://chng.it/fshzjL6tw7     

• Belly Mujinga: http://chng.it/6PrTP6Vyzp  

• Joao Pedro: http://chng.it/MpZw8hHdmP  ​

• Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau: http://chng.it/742fMq6zNn 

 

More petitions:

  

• https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#petitions

• ​https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#more

• Yemen crisis: http://chng.it/GSJ9nSYcSm

• Stop flow of weapons to Yemen: https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/yemen-stop-weapons-transfers/

• Free Muslims in Chinese concentration camps: http://chng.it/5hN9nwmXvY

• Stop ICE from poisoning immigrants: http://chng.it/v5nLDgDNFW

​

Some recommended literature (more in documents listed at top of page):

​

• Becoming an Anti-Racist Diagram: https://umich.app.box.com/s/d1zl3r2dlso7gs76wjfybv9z52m397ho

• Dave Chapelle '8:46': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tR6mKcBbT4

• Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis: https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-

• content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf

• 8 to abolition: https://www.8toabolition.com/ 

• Freedom is a Constant Struggle By Angela Davis: https://www.docdroid.net/rfDRFWv/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle-pdf

• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race By Reni Eddo-Lodge: https://www.waterstones.com/book/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/reni-eddo-lodge/9781408870587

• Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference By Audre Lorde: https://www.colorado.edu/odece/sites/default/files/attached-files/rba09-sb4converted_8.pdf

• Addressing anti-blackness in the South Asian Community: https://2020fedup.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/addressing-anti-blackness-in-the-south-asian-community/ & https://2020fedup.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/addressing-anti-blackness-in-the-south-asian-community-part-2-of-a-conversation-between-india-and-pakistan/ 

• More articles can be found on: https://2020fedup.wordpress.com/blog-2/  

• NPR recommends: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/06/871023438/this-list-of-books-films-and-podcasts-about-racism-is-a-start-not-a-panacea

​

Some recommended films (more in documents listed at top of page):

 

• 13th - Ava DuVernay

• LA 92 - Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin

• The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 - Göran Olsson

• Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee

• When They See Us - Ava DuVernay

• Beasts of the Southern Wild - Ben Zeitlin 

• Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler

• Atlanta (series) - Donald Glover

• What Happened, Miss Simone? - Liz Garbus

​

Artists:

​

• Kara Walker 

• Kerry James Marshall 

• Jean-Michel Basquiat 

• Tyler Mitchell - https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/m7qb94/tyler-mitchell-invites-us-into-a-black-utopia-with-his-new-exhibit 

• Njideka Akunyili Crosby

• Amoako Boafo

• Khalik Allah

• Tavares Strachan

• Zanele Muholi

• Bill Traylor

• Gordon Parks

• Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

​

...to name a few!

​

Music:

 

Impossible to recommend only a list's worth! 

 

Here is an article regarding 'The Long History of Creative Theft in Black Music and Arts': https://cassiuslife.com/92760/black-music-theft-cultural-appropriation/

​

​

​

​