Black Lives Matter DC

Black Lives Matter DC is a member-based abolitionist organization centering Black people most at risk for state violence in DC, creating the conditions for Black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism.

We are dedicated to promoting strategies that: 

• empower the most oppressed Black people; 
• do not reinforce or legitimize systems and institutions that harm Black people including police, prisons, mass incarceration, and modern slavery. 
• divest from people, institutions and systems that harm us and invest in the people, institutions, systems and other models that support our liberation and empowerment.
• use a diversity of tactics to promote harm reduction, political education, and non-cooperation as strategic visions.