Black Lives Matter DC

06/16/2026

DC is preparing for a major increase in policing ahead of July 4th.

For many of us, especially Black communities, this isn’t something happening somewhere else. It will affect our neighborhoods, our families, and our young people.

Join DC COLLAB for Street Law 101: Summer Surge Survival Training.

We’ll talk about:
✊🏾 Your rights during police encounters
✊🏾 What to do if you witness police abuse
✊🏾 How to document police activity
✊🏾 The impact on youth and Black communities
✊🏾 Community-based strategies to protect each other

This isn’t a lecture. It’s community members sharing skills, asking questions, and preparing together.

🗓 June 28
⏰ 2 PM - 4 PM
📍 Black Workers & Wellness Center

Free food, childcare, and all ages welcome.

Register at bit.ly/surge_survival

06/01/2026

05/23/2026

Community Takeover - Sweet Tooth Cafe & Cakes

🗓️ Monday, May 25
📍Sweet Tooth Cafe & Cakes
⏰ 9am - 2pm

Come out throughout the day to support this Black Business in Ward 8. Show up to co-work, buy a sweet for your neighbor, or get some coffee or tea. This Halal bakery has been a local gem in Anacostia and we want to show financial support as they are at risk of going out of business. The address is 2323 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020.
Even if you cannot stop by on Monday, consider stopping by at any other time.

05/22/2026

One thing about our neighborhood, no matter how much the world tries to take us out, goodness is always just around the corner!

Take a minute and go get you some ! Your senses with thank you! ❤️

03/15/2026

Right now is NOTthe time to be uninformed about our rights.

Join us for Street Law 101: Know Your Rights, a participatory training grounded in D.C. and the experiences of Black communities in this city.

We’ll break down:

• What the law says our rights are
• What actually happens in real life
• How policing operates as a system in D.C.
• The many law enforcement agencies operating here, from MPD to federal agencies like ICE
• Practical strategies for navigating police encounters

Know Your Rights education is a key part of building a People’s Self-Defense Network where communities share knowledge, protect one another, and strengthen our collective response to state violence.

📅 Wednesday, March 18

⏰ 7–9 PM (Virtual)

Register:
https://bit.ly/street_law_march

Share widely. Bring a friend.

02/25/2026

02/18/2026

Every time.

Every time one of us is killed, the story comes out fast.
“He reached.”
“He fled.”
“He had a weapon.”
“The officer feared for their life.”

It’s almost verbatim. Copy. Paste. Repeat.

And too many people accept it before loved ones are even buried.

DC residents and everyone watching nationally we MUST to do better.

Stop automatically treating the police version of events as truth. It isn’t neutral. It’s an institution protecting itself. It’s a system managing liability. It’s a script we’ve heard over and over again when they kill one of us.

Pause.
Question it.
Listen to the family.
Trust our people.

Because once the narrative hardens, it becomes the justification. And once it becomes the justification, the killing becomes “understandable.” And once it becomes understandable, it becomes normal.

We cannot normalize this.

If you say Black lives matter, that means committing to skepticism when the state explains why it took one. It means not reposting police press releases like they’re verified truth. It means asking harder questions. It means standing with families instead of institutions.

Honor the people this system has killed by refusing to help rewrite their deaths into something acceptable. Honor them by fighting forward.

Now do more than read this.

Share it. Amplify it. Post the names. Tell the stories. Expose the lies. Flood timelines with the truth about the Black people being killed by cops in DC.

Do not let them disappear quietly.

02/14/2026

Julian should still be here.