Black Lives Matter. In a time when so many of our friends and fellow humans are hurting, one thing is certain  – we must make a collective stand for what is right by taking meaningful action. 

 These are the steps we’re committed to taking:

• Donating to the Black Lives Matter DC Legal Support Fund, and offering ongoing financial support to organizations that work for reparative justice

• Anti-racist education. We will be investing time and energy into becoming better informed on the topics of racism and how to be better allies. We will share this information with our audience and community. 

• Supporting Black-Owned Businesses. We will actively pursue adding black-owned businesses to our service provider list and will intentionally seek bids from black-owned businesses when making hiring decisions. 

• Speaking out and speaking up against racism. Silence is not an option. 

• Standing in solidarity with our friends and family in the black community by honoring and amplifying their voices 

Interested in joining us on our journey? Here are some resources that may be useful:

Read

• So You Want to Talk About Race book for Adults

• A Guide to White Allyship

• Antiracist reading recommendations from local black owned bookstore Loyalty Bookstores 

• Here’s What Else Black Booksellers and Publishers Say You Should Read (Time Magazine, featuring local bookstore Mahogany Books) 

Watch

• 13th (Netflix)

• When They See Us (Netflix)

• Dear White People (Netflix)

• Strong Island (Netflix)

Learn

• Talking Race With Young Children NPR Podcast Episode

• Higher Learning Podcast

• Code Switch Podcast

Donate

• Justice for Breonna Taylor GoFundMe

• Black Lives Matter DC Legal Support Fund

• Legal Aid Society of DC

Follow

• Black Lives Matter Twitter

• Black Lives Matter Instagram

• DC Black Lives Matter Twitter

• DC Black Lives Matter Instagram

• Freedom Fighters DC Twitter

• Freedom Fighters DC Instagram

Educators:

• @rachel.cargle

• @thegreatunlearn

• @iamrachelricketts

• @mireillecharper

• @ibramxk

• @laylafsaad

Protest

• Resources for protestors in DC

Dine

• DMV Black Owned Restaurants

Shop Local DMV Black Businesses

• Sankofa - Videos, Books, Cafe 

• The Green Laundress

• Lee’s Flower & Card Shop

• Lettie Gooch

• Bailiwick Clothing

• The Brown Beauty Co-op

Shop Online Black Businesses 

• Ujamaabox - Subscription boxes products exclusively from Black owned businesses

• Black Owned Face Mask Businesses

• 52 Black Owned Businesses to Support

• 77 Black Owned Businesses to Support

• 7 black owned online business to support online right now

• Post 21 - marketplace featuring products from black-owned businesses

Apps and websites to find Black Owned Businesses

• Black Nation

• We Buy Black

• Official Black Wall Street

• Black Owned Brooklyn

• I Am Black Business

National Resource List

Petitions to Sign - List from Black Lives Matters

We welcome your feedback, please let us know if you have suggestions.