Black Lives Matter Resources

Our team has rounded up some resources, including ways to get involved, how to get informed and organizations to support that help empower our Black communities in Canada. Have any suggestions? Send us an e-mail.

How to Get Involved

• Keep sharing, posting and creating awareness
• Keep listening and educating yourself on what it means to be anti-racist 
• Open up discussions with family and friends about what you have learned
• Check in on your Black friends, family and colleagues and ask how you can help them
• Support and elevate inspiring Black women, creators, brands and businesses
• Call and e-mail your local representatives 
• Donate to organizations fighting for justice and equality
• Join the protests in your area
• Sign the petitions

Petitions

• Justice for George Floyd
• Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
• Justice for Breonna Taylor
• Justice for Ahmaud Arbery
• Demand racial data on police involved deaths in Canada
• #WeCantBreathe

How to Get Informed

Read

• Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
• Me and White Supremacy
• So You Want to Talk about Race
• A kids book about racism
• Citizen: An American Lyric
• How to Be an Anti-Racist
• When They Call You a Terrorist
• The Fire This Time
• White Fragility
• White Rage

Watch

• 13th
• Did You Wonder who Fired the Gun?
• The Hate U Give
• Selma
• Malcolm X
• Do the Right Thing

Listen

• Justice In America
• New York Times: 1619
• All My Relations
• Intersectionality Matters

Organizations to Support and Donate To

• Black Lives Matter
• WHIWH
• Black Women In Motion
• Black Youth Helpline
• Black Health Alliance
• Black Legal Action Center
• Federation of Black Canadians
• NIA Centre for the Arts
• Black Boys Club
• Black Business and Professional Association

Mental Health for Black Communities

• Women's Health in Women's Hands
• Black Health Alliance
• The Healing Collective
• The Most Nurtured
• Black Creek Community Health Centre