Black Lives Matter

Introductory Information

• About Black Lives Matter

• Black Lives Matter #herstory

• Movement for Black Lives

• Letters for Black Lives project

• Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter (TED Talks, 2016. 16 min.)

• Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Haymarket Books, 2016.

• Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice

• Anti-Racism Project: List of Resources

• Anti-Racism Resources for White People (Google Doc)

• Shutack, Corrine. “75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice.” Medium, 13 August, 2017.

• Guide to Allyship

• Talking about Race (National Museum of African American History and Culture)

• White Ally Toolkit

Bibliographies/Syllabi/Curricula/Reading Lists

• Black Lives Matter Syllabus

• Black Disabled Woman Syllabus

• Black Feminism Syllabus

• Black Panthers Syllabus

• Baltimore Syllabus

• Charleston Syllabus

• Charlottesville Resource List

• Charlottesville Syllabus

• Ferguson Syllabus

• Institutionalized Racism Syllabus

• Juneteenth Syllabus (by Jasmin C. Howard and Kenja McCray)

• Lemonade Syllabus

• Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves (.PDF of Google doc from 2016)

• Trump Syllabus 2.0

• White Supremacy in the Age of Trump Syllabus (Loretta J. Ross, Smith College)

• Black Lives Matter Nashville: Bibliography for the Revolution

• Black Lives Matter Reading List (Left Bank Books)

• Black Lives Matter Reading List (BookRiot)

• Black Lives Matter Reading List (Institute of the Black World)

• Black Lives Matter Reading List for Adults (Skokie Public Library)

• Black Lives Matter Reading List for Adults (Hennepin County Library)

• Black Lives Matter Longform Reading List (Autostraddle)

• Black Lives Matter Resource Series (Oakland Public Library)

• Black Lives Matter International Reading List (Columbia University Libraries)

• How Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Reading List (NPR)

• Black Joy Experience Resource Guide (BYP 100)

• Black Liberation Reading List (Schomburg Center, New York Public Library)

• Black Lives Matter Comics Reading Lists (all ages; BCALA and GNCRT)

• The Black Radical Tradition: compilation of writings about black radical and revolutionary movements in the US in the 20th century

• Black Revolutionary Texts

• Black Queer and Trans Reading List

• BIPOC LGBTQ Resource List (compiled by Jen Brown, We Here community manager, June 2020)

• Canadian Black Lives Matter Reading Guide (Hamilton Public Library)

• Bibliography of Lynching and Racial Violence

• Black Bibliography Project

• Digital Abolitionist Library

• Saint Heron Community Library

• Zora Canon: 100 Books by Black Women Authors

• 18 Books every White Ally Should Read (Bustle)

• 17 Books on Race Every White Person Needs to Read (Bustle)

• 16 Books about Race Every White Person Should Read (Huffington Post)

• Reading Race: Best Non-fiction of 2015 (Seattle Public Library)

• Anne Braden 2015 Anti-Racist Organizing Training Program Reading List

• “A Time for Treason” Reading List (The New Inquiry)

• Curriculum for White Americans To Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–From Ferguson To Charleston

• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources

• Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages (Augusta Baker Chair, University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science)

• Anti-Racist Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi (Chicago Public Library)

• Police and Prison Abolition 101: A Syllabus and FAQ (Autostraddle)

• Book and Film Lists (Racial Equity Tools)

• Resources to Understand Racism in America (Smithsonian)

#BlackLivesMatter Libguides and Research Guides

Black Lives Matter Reference Guide (compiled by Malcolm Teller, July 2016)

• Arizona University

• Bristol Community College

• Cornell University

• Duke University Anti-Racism and Black Liberation Libguide

• Duquesne University

• Framingham State University

• Free Library of Philadelphia

• Gustavus Adolphus College

• LaGuardia Community College

• Madison Area Technical College

• Metropolitan College of New York

• Michigan State University

• Northfield Mount Hermon School

• Princeton University

• Salem State University

• San Francisco Public Schools

• Simmons University Anti-Racism Libguide

• Syracuse University Resources for Racial Justice Libguide

• University of Pennsylvania Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism Collections Libguide

• University of Puget Sound

• University of South Carolina Upstate

• University of Southern California

• Washington State University Vancouver

• Wellesley College

Children’s/Young Adult Booklists

• Brown Bookshelf

• Kirkus Diversity Collections: Black Collections

• Picture Books to Help Kids Talk about Racism

• Picture Books about Civil Rights

• Black Lives Matter Reading List for Children and Families (Skokie Public Library)

• Black Lives Matter Reading List for Young Adults (Skokie Public Library)

• Black Girls Matter: YA Reading List

• Black Children’s Books and Authors

• We Read Too: iOS mobile app directory of children’s and YA fiction written by and featuring people of color.

• The Conscious Kid: Diverse reading lists and subscriptions

• Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance

• Anti-Racism for Kids 101: Starting to talk about Race

• Online Resources for Families Regarding Racial Injustice (Children’s Museum of the Arts)

• Queer YA Books by Black Authors

Teaching Resources

• Teaching With the News: Black Lives Matter, Continuing the Civil Rights Movement

• Teaching for Change: Black Lives Matter resources

• BlackLivesMatter Lesson Plans

• Black Lives Matter Resources for Educators

• Talking to Kids about Racism and Justice (Oakland Public Library)

• Resources for Talking With Kids about Tragedies

• “New Jim Crow” Study Guides

• Teaching Young Children about Bias, Diversity, and Social Justice 

• EmbraceRace

• Facing History

• Histories of Colour

• Collection of Resources for Teaching Social Justice

• Teaching Tolerance Classroom Resources

• BLM Resources for Educators (D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice)

• Teaching While White

• Confronting White Nationalism in Schools: A Toolkit

• Teaching Resources on African American People’s History (Zinn Education Project)

Library, Archival, Museum, and Online Collections

• African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey (Newtonville and Atlantic City, NJ)

• African American History Digital Collections (Library of Congress)

• African American Library at the Gregory School Digital Archive (Houston Public Library, Texas)

• African American Research Library & Cultural Center (Broward County Library, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)

• Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society

• Amistad Research Center (New Orleans, Louisiana)

• Appalachian African American Cultural Center (Pennington Gap, Virginia)

• Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History (Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System)

• Black Archives, History, and Research Foundation of South Florida  (Miami, Florida)

• Black Craftspeople Digital Archive

• Black Heritage Reference Center (Queens Public Library, New York)

• Black History Month Library Online Resource Collection (curated by Charles Preston)

• Black Lesbian Archives

• Black Lives Matter web archive (Archive-It.org)

• Black Lives Matter digital collection (Internet Archive)

• Black Lives Matter collection (Princeton University)

• Black Lives Matter, Policing, and Protest Guide Zines (Sherwood Forest Virtual Zine Library)

• Black Panther Party Museum (Oakland, California)

• Blackpast.org Online Reference Collection of African American History

• Black Sound Lab

• Black Trans Archive

• Black Women Oral History Project Interviews (Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute)

• California African American Museum (Los Angeles, California)

• Center for Civil and Human Rights (Atlanta, Georgia)

• Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tennessee)

• Colored Conventions: Bringing 19th century Black Organizing to Digital Life

• Documenting Ferguson (Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri)

• DuSable Museum of African American History (Chicago, Illinois)

• Free Black Women’s Library 

• Freedman’s Bureau Project

• Historical African American Newspapers Online (Marist College libguide)

• International African American Museum (Charleston, S.C.)

• Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Montgomery, Alabama)

• Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center (Kingston, N.Y.)

• Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park (Atlanta, Georgia)

• Minnesota African American Heritage Museum & Gallery (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

• Musée des Civilisations Noires/Museum of Black Civilizations (Dakar, Senegal)

• Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

• Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum Online

• POC Zine Project

• Preserve the Baltimore Uprising Archive Project

• People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland

• Race Relations in Minnesota Resource Guide (Minnesota Historical Society)

• Race and Policing Research Collection (IssueLab)

• River Road African American Museum (Donaldsonville, Louisiana)

• Save the Boards (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)

• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

• Sounds of Black Lives Matter: music and video collection

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Digital Gateway

• Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection (Chicago Public Library)

#BlackLivesMatter in Libraries and Archives

• African American Literature Book Club

• African American Studies Librarians Interest Group (Association of College and Research Libraries)

• Anastasi, Katy. "Abolitionist De-Escalation and the Library." Virtual poster session, 2020.

• Archives for Black Lives

• Archivists and Archives of Color Section (Society of American Archivists)

• Are You A Librarian?: The Untold Story of Black Librarians. Documentary by Rodney Freeman

• Art of Black Dissent

• Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Information Professionals Interest Group

• Association of African American Museums

• Balzer, Cass. “Rethinking Police Presence.” American Libraries Magazine, July 8, 2020.

• Black Archival Practice 1 (The Black Scholar 52.2, Summer 2022)

• Black Archival Practice 2 (The Black Scholar 52.4, Winter 2022)

• Black Caucus of the American Library Association

• Black Excellence LIS Syllabus (crowdsourced list, by T-Kay) 

• Black Librarians

• Black Lives Matter: Building Empathy through Reading (YALSA - in 2 parts)

• Black Lives Matter/Anti-Racism Efforts (Ivy Plus Libraries Research, Teaching, and Learning Affinity Group)

• Black Lives Matter Resource List (Progressive Librarians Guild)

• Black Metropolis Research Consortium

• Blackivists: Collective of Black Archivists

• "A Call for Ivy+ Libraries to Divest from Police and Prisons and Invest in Life-Giving Resources." October 28, 2020.

• Clark, I. J. “Public libraries, police and the normalisation of surveillance.” Infoism, 24 August, 2016.

• Collins, Stacy (interviewee). “How Libraries are Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement.” NPR, June 13, 2020.

• Community-based Approaches to Archives from the Black Lives Matter Movement

• Dapier, Jarrett, and Knox, Emily. “When Not to Call the Cops: A Plea to Protect Black Patrons.” American Libraries Magazine, July 8, 2020.

• Data4BlackLives

• Disrupting Whiteness in Libraries and Librarianship (University of Wisconsin)

• Diverse Spines

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ALA Advocacy)

• DLF Authenticity Project

• DocNow

• Drake, Jarrett M. “#ArchivesForBlackLives: Building a Community Archives of Police Violence in Cleveland.” medium.com, 22 April, 2016.

• Drake, Jarrett M. “Expanding #ArchivesForBlackLives to Traditional Archival Repositories.” medium.com, 27 June, 2016.

  • #ArchivesForBlackLives

• Green Book for Libraries: A Guide to Working Conditions of Libraries For Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

• Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change

• Hathcock, April. “White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 7 October 2015.

• HBCU Library Alliance

• Hear Diversity: diverse audiobook resources

• Inclusive Library: More than a Diverse Collection (YALSA - in 2 parts)

• Joint Council of Librarians of Color

• Know Systemic Racism

• Libraries 4 All St. Louis

• Libraries4BlackLives

• Libraries Respond: Black Lives Matter (American Library Association)

• Libraries Respond to Recent Crises (American Libraries Magazine)

  • #librariesrespond

• Library Freedom Project Statement on Library Divestment from Police

• Little Known Black Librarian Facts

• Macias, Max. “Three Anti-Racist Actions You Can Take In Your Library, Right Now.” Lowrider Librarian, July 24, 2020.

• National Conference of African American Librarians (NCAAL)

• POC In LIS Summit

• Project Ready: Reimagining Equity and Access for Diverse Youth

• Racial Equity in the Library

• Reading While White: Allies for Racial Diversity and Inclusion in Books for Children and Teens

• Reminisce Preservation

• Resources to Counter White Nationalism in Libraries

• Robinson, Nathan. “No Holds Barred: Policing and Security in the Public Library.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 11 December, 2019.

• Michele R. Santamaria. “Concealing White Supremacy Through Fantasies of the Library.” Library Trends, v.68, no.3 (Winter 2020). (via Project MUSE)

• Statements from Libraries and Library Organizations on Racism, Black Lives Matter, and Increased Violence (Infodocket, June 1, 2020)

• Storytime Underground Statement on Black Lives Matter

• Unpacking White Supremacy in Academic Libraries

• Up//Root: a publishing collective that exists to center the works, knowledge, and experiences of BIPOC within the context of the library and archive community.

• We Build Black: Communities for Black Technologists 

• We Here: Community for BIPOC Library and Archive Workers

• We Need Diverse Books

• WOC+LIB

Activism and Advocacy Organizations

Partial Map of Black-led liberation organizing

• Advancement Project

• African American Policy Forum

• Amistad Law Project

• Anti Police-Terror Project

• Assata’s Daughters

• Audre Lorde Project

• Black Alliance for Just Immigration

• Black and Pink

• Black Collective

• Black Liberation Collective

• Black Movement Law Project

• Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity

• Black Trans Media

• Black Visions Collective (Minnesota)

• Black Women Radicals

• Black Youth Project

• Blackout Collective

• Blackout for Human Rights

• Blackspace

• Catalyst Project: Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation

• Cite Black Women

• Color of Change

• Communities United for Police Reform (NYC)

• Critical Resistance

• Cultural Bridges to Justice

• Digital Abolitionist

• Dignity and Power Now

• Disrupting Whiteness (Stanford University)

• Dream Defenders

• Echoing Ida

• Equal Justice Society

• FaithForJustice

• Ferguson Action

• Fierce NYC

• Forward Together

• Incite!

• Injustice Boycott

• Know Your Rights Camp

• Law for Black Lives

• Liberation Library

• Live Free

• Million Hoodies Movement for Justice

• NAACP Legal Defense Fund

• Nation Inside: Ending Mass Incarceration

• National Black Justice Coalition

• No White Saviors

• Octavia Project

• Okra Project

• Organization for Black Struggle

• People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond

• People’s Justice

• Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity

• Police Reform Organizing Project

• Project NIA

• Project South

• Race Conscious

• Race Forward

• Racial Equity Tools

• Reclaim the Block

• Re:Power

• Safety Pin Box

• SayTheirNames

• Sentencing Project

• Showing Up For Racial Justice

• Sister Song: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective

• Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNAPCO)

• Southern Coalition for Social Justice

• Southern Poverty Law Center

• Southerners on New Ground

• Standing on the Side of Love

• Stop Cop City

• Survived and Punished

• Sylvia Rivera Law Project

• Thrive Washington

• Transform Harm

• TransWomen of Color Collective

• Together List of POC Advocacy Organizations

• Trust Black Women: Stand with Us for Reproductive Justice

• Undocublack Network

• #8toAbolition (Archived site)

Bookstores, Publishers, etc.

Crowdsourced Map of Black-Owned Bookstores (Subway Book Review)

National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2)

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores (2025)

• Black Garnet Books (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

• Books and Crannies (Martinsville, Virginia)

• Cafe con Libros (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

• Eso Won Books (Los Angeles, California)

• The Garden Abolitionist Bookstore (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

• Hakim’s Bookstore (Philadelphia, Pa.)

• Harriet’s Bookshop (Philadelphia, Pa.)

• The Lit. Bar (The Bronx, New York, N.Y.)

• Mahogany Books (Washington D.C.)

• Marcus Books (Oakland, California)

• Revolution Books (New York, N.Y.)

• Semicolon Bookstore (Chicago, Illinois) 

• Sister’s Uptown Bookstore and Cultural Center (New York, N.Y.) 

• Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books (Philadelphia)

• 1804 Books (New York, N.Y.)

News, Blogs, Podcasts, etc.

• AfroPunk

• ArtStuffMatters

• BlackGirlDangerous

• CodeSwitch

• ColorLines

• Decolonize All the Things

• The Each Other Project

• Intersectionality Matters! Podcast

• Juneteenth Book Fest

• MTV Decoded

• Prison Culture

• RaceBaitr

• Race/Related

• The Root

• Son of Baldwin

• This Week in Blackness

• Truth Out

• Urban Cusp

• Urban Intellectuals

• Very Smart Brothas

• WTF Is a Radical Librarian, Anyway?

• Young, Colored, and Angry

• 1619 Podcast

Self-Care, Trauma, and Tragedy

• ColorLines Self-Care Resources

• Activist Trauma Support

• Five Digital Self-Care Practices Black People Can Use while Coping with Trauma

• Helping Children Deal with Shootings and Other Bad News (DC Public Library)

• Helping Kids Cope With Media Coverage of War and Traumatic Events

• Self Care for People of Color after Trauma

• How Women of Color are Practicing Self Care in A Trump World

• Oh Crap What Now? Survival Guide

Police Violence, Arrests, Protests, etc.: Rights, Safety, and Documenting

• Abolitionist Library Association Listserv

• What to do instead of calling the police: Syllabus/guide

• Alternatives to Calling the Police (It’s Going Down)

• 12 Things to Do Instead of Calling the Cops (May Day Collective)

• “When Not to Call the Cops” (BCALA Webinar, March 18, 2021)

• Cop Free Library (Twitter account)

• No Cops in Libraries Zine

• Libraries, Prisons, and Abolition (Liv Graham, 2020)

• Safe Outside the System Collective and Safe Party Toolkit

• ACLU Know Your Rights: When you are stopped by police

• ACLU Know Your Rights: Demonstrations and Protests

• ACLU Know Your Rights/Conozca sus derechos Wallet Cards (for purchase)

• National Lawyers Guild Know Your Rights Guides (multilingual)

• NYCLU Protest Guide

• What to Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them

• Anti-Violence Project Safety Tips for Police Violence and Hate Violence

• How to Film the Police in the U.S.

• Staying Safe and Sexy at the Queer Beach

• 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets

• Bearing Witness Guide: Filming Police Encounters

• Stop and Frisk Watch App

• SURJ Defund the Police Resource Guide for White People

• Mobile Justice: Apps from ACLU to record Police Conduct

• Jail Support Best Practices

• Directory of Community Bail Funds (National Bail Fund Network)

• Copwatch Patrol Unit

• Mapping Police Violence

• Raheem: Chatbot for Tracking and Rating Police Interactions

• People’s Database for Community-based Police Accountability (Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS)

• Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database (Bowling Green State University

• The Counted

• The Marshall Project

• Documenting Hate

• Documenting Injuries for Law and Media purposes

• Digital Security Tips for Protestors (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

• Image Scrubber App: To anonymize photographs taken at protests

• Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment

• Witness.org

Media, Bias, and Fact-Checking Resources

• Breaking News Consumers’ Handbook

• How to Detect Bias in News Media

• False, Misleading, Click-baity, and/or Satirical “News” Sources

• How to Spot and Debunk Fake News

• MediaMatters: issues pages

• Journalism.org: Race and Ethnicity

• Sociological Images: Police, Black Americans, and U.S. Society

• Center for Media Justice

• Crash Override: Online Abuse Crisis Helpline

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Propaganda and Activism

• Politifact

• Pew Research Center: Race and Ethnicity

Government, Civic, & Business Resources

• Black Voters Matter

• Contact Your Elected Officials

• “We’re His Problem Now”: Calling Scripts for Contacting Elected Officials

• Register and Vote in Your State (U.S. Election Assistance Commission)

• U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services

• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

• Local and Regional Government Alliance on Racial Equity

• African American History Month

• Backing Black Businesses

• U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency

• Small Business Association 8(a) Business Development Program

• Directory of 8(a) Federally certified Minority/Women-owned businesses

Find More in Libraries

• Find a library near you (USA.gov directory)

• Find items in libraries near you (Worldcat.org)

Social Media accounts and hashtags 

Twitter:

• @Blklivesmatter

• @Mvmt4bl

• #blacklivesmatter

Facebook:

• @BlackLivesMatter

• @mvmt4bl

Instagram:

• @blklivesmatter

• #blacklivesmatter

About this Resource List

Update History:  A brief selection of resources was originally published as a post on queeryparty.tumblr.com on July 8, 2016, with several updates over the next few days. On July 11, 2016, that list had grown substantially and was transitioned to a Google Doc which was maintained by Que(e)ry until June 27, 2025. Que(e)ry's Google Doc was then converted into this page on July 8, 2025, for easier ongoing maintenance.