Of course these are only a handful of resources for you to show support and educate yourself, so please reach out to me with any additional resources you’d like me to add! Sending you all love!
Donate
Organizations
Black Lives Matter: “We appreciate your support of the movement and our ongoing fight to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy forever.”
Unicorn Riot: “Over the past five years, Unicorn Riot has built a worker-managed non-profit media organization. We have worked tirelessly to build a platform that focuses on primary source reporting and on-the-ground coverage. Our reporters go where the story is unfolding to bring you the voices of real people alongside crucial context and facts.”
Black Youth Project: “Funds raised on this page will be used to support our daily work, but also to provide mutual aid, legal support, bail funds, and other logistic/supportive services related to this work.”
NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund: “Donate today to help us win landmark legal battles, protect voters across the nation, and advance the cause of racial justice, equality, and an inclusive society.”
Thurgood Marshall College Fund: “We’re dedicated to transforming the lives of students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions. Talented students from diverse backgrounds gain access to lifelong rewards.”
Black Women’s Health Imperative: “Join Black Women’s Health Imperative in the fight as we do our part to ensure that women receive fair balanced and comprehensive care. Your donation goes towards the emotional, physical, and financial health of Black women across the nation through programming and the shaping of policy.”
Black Aids Institute: “Our mission is to stop the AIDS epidemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing Black institutions and individuals in efforts to confront HIV.”
Trans Justice Funding Project: “The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people.”
META Center Inc.: “An Akron-based 501(3) organization that creates regular programming for transgender and gender non-conforming youth ages 7-19. Through providing affirmation to one of society’s most vulnerable, META Center Inc. works to create social change and foster acceptance.”
Black Girls Smile: “Black Girls Smile Inc. was founded with a mission to provide young black women with education, resources, and support to lead mentally healthy lives. BGS’ mission is grounded in research, focus group findings, and personal experiences highlighting the under-served and underrepresented mental health needs of young black women.”
Autistic People of Color Fund: “The Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment exists to provide direct support, mutual aid, and reparations by and for autistic people of color.”
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute: “Support is free and it doesn’t cost a thing to offer your love, but when you become a partner, you help us employ Black trans people, build more strategic campaigns, launch winning initiatives, and interrupt the people who are standing in the way of more being possible in the world for Black Trans people, and all people.”
Black Women for Wellness: “Based in Los Angeles, our mission is to build the electoral and political power of Black women and girls throughout California using a reproductive justice framework. We appreciate your support of the movement and our ongoing fight to expand healthcare access for Black women and girls, reduce toxic hair care chemicals that are prevalent in our community, and build political advocacy.”
Memorial Funds
The Daunte Wright Sr. Memorial Fund
Kevin Peterson Jr. Memorial Fund
Bail Funds
The Bail Project (national revolving bail fund)
National Bail Fund Network (includes a directory of community bail funds by state)
The Louisville Community Bail Fund: “The Louisville Community Bail Fund exists to not only bail out folks, but provide post-release support to get them from jail, fed, and to a situation of safety. LCBF also maintains a focus on preventative measures for those targeted by law enforcement and threatened with incarceration.”
LGBTQ Freedom Fund: “With your help, the LGBTQ Freedom Fund secures the liberty and safety of people held in jail or immigration detention, focusing on LGBTQ individuals.”
Sign a Petition
- #DefundThePolice
- Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Justice For Toyin
- I Run With Maud
- Reopen the case involving the death of Tamla Horsford
- Justice for Tony McDade
- Hands Up Act
- Justice For Tamir Rice
- Justice for Elijah McClain
Buy Black
Check out my blog post of Black-owned businesses to shop online for more details on the brands I’ve personally tested and love. And be sure to check out the Kayla’s Chaos merch shop for unisex T-shirts and stickers!
Fashion
- Telfar (accessories)
- Brandon Blackwood (accessories)
- Victor Glemaud (clothing)
- Cee Cee’s Closet (hair accessories)
- Blk Confetti (accessories)
- Savage X Fenty (undergarments, lingerie)
- Pyer Moss (clothing)
- LaQuan Smith (clothing)
- Romeo Hunte (clothing)
- Kin By Kristine (plus clothing)
- V. Stella Rex (clothing)
- And I Get Dressed (clothing)
- Nubian Skin (undergarments, hosiery)
- LinguaNigra (accessories)
- Lilly’s Kloset (clothing, shoes)
- Jane Dottie Vintage (clothing, accessories)
- Hanifa (clothing)
- God Is Dope. (clothing)
- Zelie for She (plus clothing)
- Access Denied Boutique (clothing)
- Thick Laces (clothing, sneaker accessories)
- KIN Apparel (clothing)
- Christopher John Rogers (clothing)
Beauty
- The Lip Bar (makeup)
- Pat McGrath Labs (makeup)
- The Crayon Case (makeup)
- Beauty Bakerie (makeup)
- Aunt Jackie’s Curls & Coils (hair)
- Mented Cosmetics (makeup)
- Fenty Beauty (makeup)
- Fenty Skin (skin care)
- Black Girl Sunscreen (skin care)
- Miss Jessie’s (hair)
- Bread Beauty Supply (hair)
- Kinky-Curly (hair)
- Deecoded Cosmetics (makeup)
- Lime Lyfe Hair (hair)
- Makeup Scientist (makeup)
Home / Art / Miscellaneous
- Adorned by Chi (comics, clothing, accessories)
- Shema Love (prints, hoodies)
- StylishSista (stickers, art prints, water bottles)
- Legendary Rootz (home/office, art prints, accessories, clothing)
- TheTriniGee (clothing, home/office, accessories)
- DomoInk (art prints, home, clothing, shoes)
- Juicy Christians (greeting cards, mugs, accessories)
- Karen Jai Home (home decor and furniture)
- Albany Park (furniture)
- Imitation By Jerell (art, furniture)
- Secret Scents of Ella (candles)
- Pretty Honest Candles (candles, sprays, diffusers)
- Southern Elegance Candle Co. (candles, clothing)
Wellness
- The Honey Pot (feminine care)
- Vegan Pop Eats (vegan lifestyle)
- B Condoms (condoms)
- Paper Therapy (affirmation cards)
Food & Drink
- McBride Sisters Wine (alcohol)
- Red Bay Coffee (coffee)
- Trufflin (sauces)
- Hot N Saucy (sauces)
- A Dozen Cousins (food)
- InBooze (alcohol)
Books To Read
Non-Fiction
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
- Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
- Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks
- Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- On Intersectionality: Essential Writings by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Banaji Mahzarin and Anthony Greenwald
- The Possessive Investment in Whiteness by George Lipsicz
- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Foreman Jr.
- Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- American Lynching by Ashraf H. a. Rushdy
Fiction
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Poetry & Anthologies
- Citizen by Claudia Rankine
- The Complete Poetry of Maya Angelou
- Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
- This Bridge Called My Back by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Films / Series / Docs To Watch
Educational / Emotional / Historic
- When They See Us
- The Hate U Give
- Selma
- 13th
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- 12 Years A Slave
- Just Mercy
- Malcom X
- Who Killed Malcom X?
- BlacKKKlansman
- Self Made
- Becoming
- Hidden Figures
Feel-Good / Comedy / Drama
- Black-ish • Mixed-ish • Grown-ish
- Insecure
- Sister, Sister
- That’s So Raven
- Living Single
- One on One
- Girlfriends
- #blackAF
- Dear White People
- Queen of Katwe
- The Proud Family
- Moesha
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Girls Trip
- Black Panther
- Moonlight
- Good Burger
- The Princess and The Frog
- Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
- Homecoming
- Think Like a Man
- The Color of Friendship
- Tyler Perry films and shows
Action / Horror / Thriller
Podcasts To Listen To
- Two Dope Queens
- Sweetened with Ash Lemonade
- Okay, Now Listen
- Code Switch
- Still Processing
- Side Hustle Pro
- Black History Buff
- Hella Black
- Balanced Black Girl
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Black Lives Matter
Today. Tomorrow. Always.