Black Lives Matter DC

WE ARE THE DC CHAPTER OF BLACK LIVES MATTER

We Need Your Support!

After years of being faced with public scrutiny about finances and leadership of Black Lives Matter (BLM), we joined a group of 10 local chapters (the #BLM10) in renewing demands for transparency and accountability from the Black Lives Matter Global Network (BLMGN - the national BLM organization), demands that first began in 2016.

We Left the Global Network In 2020

Unfortunately despite our best efforts people still believe we are the same organization and it has seriously impacted our chapter's ability to fundraise and continue to do this work. We need your financial support.

Following the summer of 2020, a time of increased organizing for social justice and massive donations to BLM’s fight for liberation, the local chapters released a public statement that outlined deficits in leadership, organization, and financial accounting. We released a second statement with even more chapters carefully detailing the history, structure, finances, political tensions and attempts at accountability. We spoke our truth in the press, on the radio and online.

While millions of dollars have been donated to BLMGN, most chapters have received little to no financial support since the launch in 2013. As chapters, we raise our own funds in order to be able to continue the work we do in our own cities.

Your donations, help support collective efforts that work to make sure our community has everything it needs to thrive.

When we thrive we also build the power to demand investments in communities, safety beyond policing, real community control, community defense, and divestment from militarization and other systems that oppress Black people in DC. Become a recurring donor today!

For almost 8 years, Black Lives Matter DC has grown from an idea hashed out by a small group of relative strangers in the basement of MLK library to a leaderful ecosystem of artists, activists, organizers and healers committed to liberation. We’ve shut down highways and built communities of love and support all in the name of Black Liberation. Over time, our core programming has expanded from monthly weeks of action to supporting families of those lost to police and community violence, ongoing community trainings and political education, cop watch, rapid response, coalition building and East of the River Mutual Aid.