BLACK LIVES MATTER

About BLM

The Black Lives Matter Global Network is a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. They are expansive.

They are a collective of liberators who believe in an inclusive and spacious movement. They also believe that in order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, they must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities.

BLM must ensure that they are building a movement that brings all of us to the front. They affirm the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, undocumented folks, folks with records, women, and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. Their network centers those who have been marginalized within Black liberation movements. Read more

Programs

The work they have set out to do is hard and tedious. Each year brings its own challenges—and for many, each of them tests their resolve in unimaginable ways. Despite that, they maximize opportunities to grow as a network, to sharpen our commitment to justice, and to share our varied aspirations for the liberation of Black people.

While they don’t always agree, what they know above all else is that each of us is organizing toward a world in which all Black people have the rights, resources, and recognition we need to thrive. Read more