“Criminalizing Blackness” takes a close look at how the 1994 “crime bill” acted as a precursor to the 1996 Immigration Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Anti-Terrorism & Effective Death Penalty Act. It analyzes policies that have led to the anti-Black US immigration system and offers systemic changes to address harms done.

Guidance for you to help stay safe and assess risk in participating in protests and marches.

This information sheet shares strategies to help you protect yourself and your movement if you are approached for questioning by the FBI or other law enforcement. The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and CLEAR aim to provide people with the tools to carry on with the vital work of defending Black life.

As the devastating Arctic storms approached Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee in February 2021, The Smile Trust in partnership with the Movement for Black Lives activated the Community Emergency Operations Center (CEOC), a grassroot disaster relief system created in 2017 by The Smile Trust.

Juneteenth is a celebration and commemoration of the day the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned about the Emancipation Proclamation which legally ended slavery for people not convicted of a crime.

This toolkit explores the long history of struggles for reparations for Black people, lays out key facts, concepts, and international human rights law underlying reparations demands, and provides case studies of struggles for reparations at theinstitutional, local, state, and international levels. Our goal in creating this toolkit is to provide a foundational definition of what […]

Share these infographics across your social networks to help end the silencing the voices of protesters and organizers in our cities as a form of federally-sponsored violence targeting Black and Brown communities.

Share these infographics across your social networks to support amnesty demands for protestors who have been charged as part of JTTF and other law enforcement investigations.

Learn about the impact of Joint Terrorism Task Forces and Operation Legend tactics with this handy download.

Banner drops are an effective way of disrupting the space with your messaging and can happen relatively quickly with a small team of people.

This tactic is a chance for you to get creative and remain inside while amplifying your message to the public!

Popular physical distancing tactic. A great way to “march.” Maintain physical distance and take up even more space!

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If you have a target who frequently uses Twitter for engagement, this is the tactic for you! It consists of crowding the target’s “mentions” and potentially getting your messaging to trend.

Over 73 million people—or one in three people in the U.S.—currently have a record of past criminal history, triggering dozens of collateral consequences affecting access to education, employment and professional licenses, housing, social services and benefits, parental and adoption rights, freedom of movement, and voting rights. Given profound racial disparities at every stage of the […]

Since 1990, the U.S. Department of Defense has transferred over $6 billion in military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, including school and campus police, through the Excess Property 1033 Grant program. Military weapons, including tanks and grenade launchers, have disproportionately been deployed by SWAT Teams against Black communities in the “War on Drugs” and […]

The use of pretrial detention and money bail has contributed to the 500% explosion in U.S. jail populations over the last forty years. Tonight around 600,000 people will sleep in a local jail, even though over 75%, or about 462,000 people, have not been convicted of any crime. Most are caged, in some cases for […]

While the vast and web of surveillance spreading throughout the U.S. impacts everyone, the harm to targeted groups, including Black, Latinx, Arab, Muslim, South Asian, Middle Eastern, and migrant communities, disabled people, low- and no-income, homeless or precariously housed people, and anyone receiving government benefits or using public services – including health care, housing, and […]

The “War on Drugs” has been a primary driver of mass criminalization, incarceration, and law enforcement violence targeting Black people over the past five decades, devastating families, communities, and generations. Prostitution enforcement has consistently served as a mechanism for profiling, pathologization, targeting, physical and sexual violence, criminalization, and structural exclusion for Black women, trans, and […]

Black people, including Black disabled, LGBTQ and low- and no-income people, are disproportionately sentenced to death in the U.S.The United States currently imprisons more human beings than any other country in the world, both in real numbers and as a percentage of the population.

The United States currently imprisons more human beings than any other country in the world, both in real numbers and as a percentage of the population.  The number of migrants, including children separated from their families, incarcerated in detention centers has reached record numbers. While Black people represent about 13% of the population of the […]

Black migrants now account for 10% of the Black population and 7.2% of all non-citizens, and are disproportionately demonized and targeted for violence and exclusion at the border, criminalization, detention, and deportation. Among all migrants, Black migrants are nearly 3 times more likely to be detained and deported as a result of an alleged criminal […]

Black people across the U.S. have shorter life expectancy, higher rates of stress-related medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and unmet mental health needs, higher rates of chronic health issues, devastating rates of Black maternal and infant mortality, and high rates of mortality among our trans and gender nonconforming family.  One […]

Discrimination, harassment, and violence against Black trans, intersex, queer, and gender nonconforming (LGBTQ+) people pervade virtually every institution and setting, including schools, workplaces, systems of policing, prisons, parole and probation, immigration, health care, and family and juvenile courts. As a result, Black LGBTQ+ people experience high levels of poverty, criminalization, health disparities, and exclusion in […]

Discrimination, harassment, and violence against Black trans, intersex, queer, and gender nonconforming (LGBTQ+) people pervade virtually every institution and setting, including schools, workplaces, systems of policing, prisons, parole and probation, immigration, health care, and family and juvenile courts. As a result, Black LGBTQ+ people experience high levels of poverty, criminalization, health disparities, and exclusion in […]

Black women have historically and continue to experience some of the highest rates of violence, including lethal, physical, and sexual violence; highest rates of maternal mortality and stress-related medical conditions; and some of the highest rates of poverty and unemployment, of any group in the United States. Black women also have the highest rates of […]

Black youth are systematically profiled and targeted by police, and make up 35% of arrests of people under 18; twice as likely to be arrested as white youth; disproportionately tried as adults; twice as likely to be sentenced to life without parole; five times as likely to be incarcerated or committed; and more likely to […]

The explosion of surveillance, policing, mass criminalization, incarceration, and deportation that has devastated Black communities over the past four decades has been fueled by large-scale investments at all levels of government, accompanied by massive disinvestment from meeting community needs. The U.S. currently spends over $100 billion a year on policing and another $80 billion a […]

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) launched the Vision for Black Lives, a comprehensive and visionary policy agenda for the post-Ferguson Black liberation movement, in August of 2016. The Vision, endorsed by over 50 Black-led organizations in the M4BL ecosystem and hundreds of allied organizations and individuals, has since inspired campaigns across the country to […]

This information sheet shares strategies on how to protect your movement and organizing spaces against infiltration. The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and CLEAR aim to raise awareness of the risk of infiltration and to provide people with the tools to carry on with the vital work of defending Black life.