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BLM Atlanta

Atlanta

In 2015, Dre Propst, Mary Hooks, Dawn O’Neal and Tiffany R. Smith organized the inaugural meeting of the Atlanta chapter on December 17, 2015 at the historic Big Bethel A.M.E. church on Auburn Avenue.Since the organization’s inception, Black Lives Matter
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BLM Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Black Lives Matter Louisville is a collective of organizers that work in a fusion for Black Louisville to build and rise up our communities from our different platforms. While maintaining our various scopes, we can affirm that all #BlackLivesMatter. Over
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BLM Greensboro

Greensboro, NC

Black Lives Matter Greensboro has been dedicated to the upliftment of all Black people since the inception of this chapter in 2014. We center the leadership of LGBTQ people and women, recognizing their consistent and tireless efforts towards the liberation
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Black Visions Collective, Minneapolis Chapter

Minneapolis, MN

We are a Black, Queer-led organization in affiliation with the BLM Network and the official chapter in Minnesota. Our aim is to work toward creating a world in which Black Lives Matter. We use the guidance and brilliance of our
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BLM Denver

Denver, CO

On May 21, 2015, three Black women launched Black Lives Matter 5280 to help build loving, powerful Black communities in the Denver Metro Area. From hosting Black mother-daughter dinners to disrupting the corporatization of the Denver MLK Marade and holding
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BLM Birmingham

Birmingham, AL

Since 2015, Black Lives Matter Birmingham Chapter has existed in a thriving city with a legacy of civil rights and social justice. Using a grassroots model, we seek to protect, and empower ALL BLACK LIVES in the Birmingham area, and
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BLM Toronto

Toronto, ON

As BLM Toronto, our vision is to be a platform upon which black communities across Toronto can actively dismantle all forms of anti-black racism, liberate blackness, support black healing, affirm black existence, and create freedom to love and self- determine.
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BLM Long Beach

Long Beach, CA

Black Lives Matter Long Beach is a local organizing effort in Long Beach, CA, in solidarity with the national, U.S.-based, #BlackLivesMatter movement. We are a Black-led organization that is queer, women, working-class affirming, and seeks Black liberation, and accordingly, liberation
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BLM Chicago

Chicago, IL

Black Lives Matter Chicago was founded as part of the Freedom Ride to Ferguson in August 2014. Participants decided to keep working together under the BLM banner and focus on amplifying issues in Chicago. BLM Chicago has been a part
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BLM Sacramento

Sacramento, CA

The Sacramento chapter of Black Lives Matter was founded in November of 2015. Fighting for justice for: – Adriene Ludd (10/2015) – Dazion Flenaugh (4/2016) – Trish Hill (4/2016) – Joseph Mann (7/2016) – Armani Lee (1/2017) – Lorenzo Cruz
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BLM DC

D.C., DC

Black Lives Matter DC is a radical collective of Black artists, infrastructure builders, and movement healers and strategists from the future, organizing in the here and now around two movement equations. These equations inform how we live as our highest
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BLM New Jersey

Rutgers, NJ

Black Lives Matter New Jersey was established out of BLM Rutgers (New Brunswick) to expand the capacity in which we could continue the realization of the mission statement and goals of the Black Lives Matter Global Network. As a statewide
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BLM Vancouver

Vancouver, WA

Black Lives Matter Vancouver Washington knows that smaller towns have an important role in making sure Black Lives Matter everywhere. We are centered in remembering our Black roots and creating Black community. Through our connection to our Black history, which
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BLM Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Black Lives Matter Los Angeles is the first chapter to form in what is now the global network. Organizers who are among the original members of Black Lives Matter poured into the streets on July 13, 2013, the day that
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BLM Champaign-Urbana

Champaign-Urbana, IL

Black Lives Matter Champaign-Urbana is a Midwest chapter of the Black Lives Matter Global Network. BLM Champaign-Urbana has a Black core team and membership, a non-Black accomplice group, and a Black youth council. Our work typically focuses on anti-incarceration, Black
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BLM Lansing

Lansing, MI

Black Lives Matter Lansing is a small chapter—but what we lack in size, we make up for in influence. Over the past two years, we have successfully centered the issues of Black folks in Metro Lansing in the hearts and
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BLM Gary Indiana

Gary, IN

Formed in late 2014, Black Lives Matter Northwest Indiana–Gary is a Black-led, multiracial, and intergenerational organization deeply rooted in Gary and active in the Northwest Indiana (NWI) region. We work to organize our community against racism and state violence by
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BLM Upstate NY

Upstate, NY

“With all the statistics and the tragic legacy of our country showing Black people being routinely discriminated against, white people still live in denial of racism. Until our lives matter as much as theirs, Black Lives Matter will not stop
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BLM Hudson Valley

Hudson Valley, NY

Black Lives Matter Hudson Valley began as BLM Rockland-Orange in December 2015. We changed our name to provide leadership and support for Black folks from Kingston to Westchester (Hudson Valley region). We currently have folks organizing in Ulster, Dutchess, Orange,
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BLM Rutgers

New Brunswick, Piscataway Township, NJ

We are Black Lives Matter Rutgers. We are a university-based chapter working toward Black educational success, as well as bringing an end to structural racism. We are Central New Jersey–based but work across the entirety of New Jersey and the
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BLM Memphis

Memphis, TN

Black Lives Matter Memphis is building a Memphis where Black people thrive and live full lives. We are working together to make our BLM 2020 Vision a reality. We will build Black political power by organizing around transformative policies; creating
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BLM Boston

Boston, MA

Black Lives Matter Boston is dedicated to restorative justice and finding alternatives to police and state-issued corrections. BLM Boston also adheres to issues unique to Boston’s Black community, such as BPS (Boston Public School) policies; MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)
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BLM Bay Area

Bay Area, CA

The Black Lives Matter Bay Area chapter covers all 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay Area, and work closely with our sister chapter in Sacramento. BLM Bay Area members organize and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted
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BLM Philly

Philadelphia, PA

Black Lives Matter Philly is a Black-centered organization that collaborates with partners to build a politically and economically empowered, healthy, and whole Black community with the ultimate goal of paving the path for Black power and liberation for all Black
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LATEST UPDATES

June 27, 2018

Black Lives Matter Cambridge is Listening to Our Community

Working with Black youth and Black Families: Black families continue to experience racism in Cambridge Public Schools, so BLM Cambridge has been attending family conferences and administration meetings with Black families as witnesses, as advocates, and aunties. The Black
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BLM Cambridge

March 25, 2018

The Black Lives Matter Global Network and the Movement for Black Lives Honors the Life of Marielle Franco, Stands with Black Freedom Fighters in Brazil

On March 14th, 2018 Marielle Franco an Afro-Brazilian council member was brutally assassinated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was a human rights advocate raised in the favelas, and thousands have gathered to mourn her. Black organizers in Brazil reached
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March 5, 2018

Video: Centering Blacktivisim

After the 90th #Oscars, during which Andra Day and Common performed “Stand Up For Something” and centered activists and movements from across the world, the Black Lives Matter Global Network released this powerful new video about our Network, our chapters,
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