Spreading

awareness

Ways to spread awareness

Hi, my name is Kayleigh and I will be talking about how we can all bring awareness to what is happening around the world. Although I myself have never experienced discrimination, I think we can all agree that its a horrible thing and I can't even begin to imagine how painful it must feel. That's why I think it should be everyone's goal to help spread awareness and knowledge to everyone and to show ways that can help and make an impact for the good.

Ways to donate :

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Black Lives Matter

Say Her Name

Simple & Effective ways to raise awareness

13-year-old uses clothing line to raise awareness for Black Lives MatterIndia Alston is selling shirts and donating money through her Quotes For Justice to support kids of color.

This young girl, only 13 years old started making t-shirts with her family with quotes on them to raise awareness. She also talks about how powerful your voice is, no matter your age which I really agree with. She is donating a portion of her sales to a non profit organization called Inspiring Minds. The link to her website and the organization is down below.

Quotes for Justice T Shirts

Donating

By making donations, you can help in many different ways. There are also numerous great sites that you can donate to, inlcuding the ones attached at the top of the page. By donating you can inspire additional donations, and help people in need of it. There are also organisations who work to end mass incarceration and provide legal representation. There are also organisations who work to help bail funds for protestors aswell as donating directly to families who have lost loves ones to police brutality. Overall, making donations to organizations is a GREAT way to help raise awareness for the Black Lives Matter movement, even if youre only donating a small amount.

Protesting

This pictures shows a great way of raising awareness. Protesting increases the visibility and of course raises awareness. By making signs and using megaphones you can have a great impact. Protesting catches the attention of bystanders and the media which causes more and more people to see the cause and why things change is needed.

Social Media & Hashtags

Social Media plays a huge part in raising awareness, by creating Hashtags and posting things, you can create a ton of awareness to people around the world. Many people can be inspired by what is being posted and look into this subject even more. By one single post, you can effect so many people. The #BlackLivesMatter movement and hashtag first started on July 13th 2013 and was founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. Following the death of George Floyd, from May 26 2020 to June 7th 2020 the hashtag was used 47.8 million times on Twitter alone. Averaging just under 3.7 million times per day.

Educating Yourself

A big thing about trying to raise awareness, is that you have to educate yourself on the situation. With social media, its very easy to be able to learn more about what's going on. If you are using social media, its very hard to not be educated on the situation. A big step in trying to raise awareness is to know about what's happening, and how you can make an impact and do better.

Educating Others

Another great way of raising awareness is simply educating others on the Black Lives Matter movement. Sharing you're views and why you think it is important for them to know about it can greatly effect them. Sharing different sites they can donate to or even things they can read up on and show them how they can also raise awareness.

Why we SHOULDN'T say all lives matter

This video posted to Twitter by user @JITEAGEGE does a great job at briefly explaning why we should not be saying it. The video is very short and to the point, making it easy to understand why we should not be using it.

Use Your Voice

Stand up for what you believe in and do your part in making a change. Change is needed and your voice is so powerful even if you think otherwise. Stand up for the movement, talk about it with your friends, family and anyone you can. Post on social media, protest do what you feel comfortable with and remember what youre doing it for.