Together for Black Lives

A curation of resources to amplify the work of organizers and supporters in the fight for justice for our Black brothers and sisters.

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LaunchGood is not another community organization. Instead, we provide a platform on which communities can organize.

Black communities use their voices to start life-altering campaigns. Now is the time for the global Muslim ummah to give unwavering support.

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Suggestion
Borrow books from your local library (or request a book if they don't have it!) or purchase from independent and local bookstores.

Towards Sacred Activism
by Dawud Walid
Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection
by Sherman A. Jackson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
Centering Black Narrative: Black Muslim Nobles among the Early Pious Muslims
by Dawud Walid and Ahmad Mubarak
#BlackIslamSyllabus
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
How to be an Anti-Racist
by Ibram X. Kendi
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by Damon Young
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Davis
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
by Angela Davis
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Nobody
by Marc Lamont Hill
They Can't Kill Us All
by Wesley Lowery
Another Day in the Death of America
by Gary Younge
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance- a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
by Danielle L. McGuire
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
by Reni Eddo-Lodge
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
Biased
by Jennifer Eberhardt

Pray and make dua in the last third of the night
Reflect on the ways in which you have perpetuated racism and benefited from it
Talk to your family, friends, classmates, and coworkers and educate them, especially if it’s uncomfortable
Donate to or - better yet - fundraise for a local organization working on these issues
Participate in a local protest. If you cannot do this, here are 26 ways you can still support protests
Sign a petition
Join a book club: #BecauseWe'veRead
#BlackLivesMatter: MuslimARC Toolkit
#BlackInMSA: 10 Recommendations for Muslim Student Organizations
#SacredResistance: Resources for Faith Communities Providing Sanctuary to and Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter Protestors
A Guide to Allyship
More ways to help

Suggestion
Organize a virtual screening of one of the films or lectures below with family or friends followed by a discussion.