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Take Our Women’s History Month Pledge
In honor of Women’s History Month and Black women and femmes everywhere, join BLMGNF and recommit to continuing the fight to end all inequities and close the gaps that Black women and femmes face. Will you let us know what you’re doing to help close these gaps?
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Share Your Black Love Story with Black Lives Matter!
Valentine’s Day vibes are in the air, and we’ll take any excuse to obsess over #BlackLove! Whether you want to express love for your girls, your boo, or yourself this season of love, we want to hear ALL about it. Take a quick moment to share your #BlackLove story with us!
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Remove Cops from Traffic Stops!
An estimated 10% of police killings begin as simple traffic encounters. Since 2017, police in the U.S. have killed nearly 600 people during traffic stops, and the numbers continue to rise. If we #defundthepolice and invest in community approaches to public safety—like having trained, unarmed professionals serve as first responders to traffic incidents—we could avoid…
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BLM Foundation National Voter Registration Day + OMF Giveaway
September 20th is National Voter Registration Day, so we are re-launching our voter registration website! Will you encourage an unregistered voter in your life to register to vote today? Every year, we hear, “there’s so much at stake this election!” But the fact of the matter is this: Getting Trump out of office was not…
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Demand Congress End Qualified Immunity
Andrew Joseph III was a 14-year-old Black teen attending “Student Day” at the Florida State Fair in Tampa, back in 2014. After sheriff’s deputies racially targeted, harassed, physically searched, and unjustly removed Andrew from the fair, making no attempt to contact the middle-schooler’s parents, Andrew was dropped off on the side of a busy interstate…
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#BuildBlack by Supporting These Orgs This Giving Tuesday
Today is Giving Tuesday, a day for us to generously give and unleash the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. Today, we’re bringing to light just how much these innovative organizations do for our communities on a day-to-day basis, as their work speaks volumes about the complexity and importance…
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President Biden Must Cancel All Student Loan Debt Now
With a stroke of a pen, President Biden can cancel all student debt. The weight of student loan debt has caused many hardships for Americans across the country — but has had a disproportionate impact on Black students and families. All the while, for decades, Black people have been told that the way to get…
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Support Our LGBTQ+ Community By Urging Congress to Pass the Equality Act
Currently, fewer than 25 states have protections for LGBTQ+ folks written into law, and even fewer explicitly protect trans folks. Since our inception, Black Lives Matter has been committed to supporting, investing in and protecting LGBTQ+ lives—because all Black lives matter, period. It is a priority for us to always put LGBTQ+ voices at the…
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Expand Postal Banking
With federal desegregation in the early 1920s, the postal service became one of the first and largest opportunities for Black people to become a part of the middle class. Today, nearly 50% of postal workers are Black and brown folks. For the everyday Black worker, the postal service has represented the dignified, stable employment they…