NATIONAL RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS
Explore their websites, follow them on social media, read their literature and campaigns, join them, and donate to them regularly and generously as you are able.
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) https://m4bl.org/, formed in December of 2014, was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions; develop shared assessments of what political interventions are necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural, and political wins; and convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement-wide strategy.
The Movement for Black Lives works under the fundamental idea that we can achieve more together than we can separately. The Movement for Black Lives website has resources on a number of campaigns and visions including “End the War on Black Communities”, “End to All Jails, Prisons, and Immigration Detention”, “End the War on Drugs”, and “End the Surveillance on Black Communities”.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) https://blacklivesmatter.com/ was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) https://surj.org/ is an organization part of a multi-racial movement to undermine white support for white supremacy and to help build a racially-just society. SURJ has many resources and tools, as well as a chapter in the Boston Area: https://www.surjboston.org/
An example of an important racial justice organizing resource from SURJ: https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characteristics.html