Stories are empathy machines. They are how we teach each other and ourselves to understand the feelings of someone whose experience is not our own. With that said, we as a mod team felt it went without saying that we stand with the Black Lives Matter movement and the countless victims the criminal justice system has created.

Since this issue is so much bigger than this sub we took a moment to come up with ideas on how to offer more than just words. It seems the best place to start would be by offering donation links and recommending films or series that were made by or represent black voices.

Here are some legitimate links we found useful in deciding where to donate:

Minnesota Freedom Fund

Black Visions Collective

Reclaim the Block

Unicorn Riot

Campaign Zero

George Floyd Memorial Fund

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Here are some movie and documentary recommendations based on streaming service:

Netflix	Hulu	Amazon Prime	HBO Max
13th	Sorry to Bother You	4 Little Girls	The Wire (series)
Malcolm X	Detroit	Chi-Raq	The Boondocks (series)
Moonlight	Monsters and Men	Moonlight	The Loving Story
What Happened, Miss Simone?	If Beale Street Could Talk	Fences	Watchmen
Dear White People (series)	Toni Morrison: The Pieces Of Me	A Century of Black Cinema	Muhammad Ali: What's My Name Part 1 And Part 2
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (series)	Amazing Grace: Aretha Franklin	Freedom Summer	True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Inequality
She's Gotta Have It (series)	Whitney	Crown Heights	1968: The Year that Changed America
Pose (series)	Wu-Tang: An American Saga (series)	I Am Not Your Negro	Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
The People vs OJ Simpson (series)	Whose Streets?	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman	King in the Wilderness
Juice	Queen Sugar (series)	The Tuskegee Airmen	Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas
When They See Us (series)	Power (series)	12 Years a Slave	When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Acts 1 and 2 And 3 and 4
Who Killed Malcom X? (series)	Black Jesus (series)	BlacKKKlansman	BlacKKKlansman
Becoming	Atlanta (series)	Queen of Katwe	Baltimore Rising
	Blackish (series)	Straight Outta Compton	Traffic Stop
		The Hate U Give	Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
		Fruitvale Station	3 1/2 minutes, Ten Bullets
		Hidden Figures	Who Killed Garret Phillips? Part One And Part 2
		Lee Daniels: The Butler	Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
		Selma	2 Dope Queens (series)
		Loving	Insecure (series)
			Blindspotting

In addition, Just Mercy and Selma are free to rent this month on Google Play and Amazon Prime.

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This is in no way a complete list and if you'd like to recommend a submission feel free to discuss it in the comments below.

BlackLivesMatter

Submitted June 09, 2020 at 01:04AM by LiteraryBoner https://ift.tt/3cLvRxV