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Everyday, Black women and girls are missing and either never found or found dead.

Say HER name.

Michaelá is a 24 y/o Black woman who was physically assaulted at a nail salon in Michigan and was afterwards threatened online by the same workers who shared her personal information and created a false story for others to attack her. Police did nothing and even denied her to press charges against her attackers. This is her GoFundMe.

More information can be found on her original IG post. She has also made other posts updating her situation as time passes. Below are pictures of the place of the attack and some of the online threats she's been getting.

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paypal

venmo

now that i have managed to get into a better school, my focus has shifted to finding permanent housing where i feel safe and i can start to settle and move on with my life. ive found a place with a bw roommate but i don't have the funds for a deposit and first months rent, its £1900 in total. ive been working on it in other ways, like selling things and doing odd jobs, but now i have a week left and i thought it couldnt hurt to also drop my info here.

if anyone could help youd be literally saving my life, even just a reblog would help. and i can provide proof of my situation, if youd like to inbox me. in advance thankyouuu 🖤

paypal: [email protected]

Y’all please help in anyway you can. This baby is only 11!

Here is their PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/sistahgirlRsp

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ebony-get-adaquate-education

But here’s where our lives turned for the worst. My boyfriend was working in a concrete plant, which you can inhale silica. He got sick with two kidney stones (that he hasn’t passed), and two bumps on his lungs. So his job fired him. I lost my job when the virus hit really badly and there was a case of covid-19 at my job so I quit.

We lost our home, and we need help again. If anyone cares, or has a heart please help us. I’m so tired of being in this situation, I just want to have a home. I don’t have any friends I can stay with or anything, and neither does him, and we only have a short amount of time before we are completely on the streets. Please help us. ♥️ If you are more comfortable with cash app, or venmo, here’s my accounts.

Cash app: $BoobyPaint

Venmo: @joshandchanelle

Thank you for reading my post. Please reblog if you can’t donate, I really need help getting the word out there. ♥️🙏

Supporting black authors is something that I definitely need to start doing more, so I’ve compiled a list of 80 YA books by black authors. I’m putting the ones that I’ve read at the top in bold, and the rest will be books that I have looked up and have put on my list to read. I can’t do much to change what’s going on in our world right now, but I can do my part to support the black community in any way that I can. These are in no particular order and please feel free to add more!

On The Come Up by Angie Thomas

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Calling My Name by Liara Tamani

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

Odd One Out by Nic Stone

Jackpot by Nic Stone

Dear Justyce by Nic Stone - coming out 9/29/20

Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

Oh My Gods by Alexandra Sheppard

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi

Love Me or Miss Me: Hot Girl, Bad Boy by Dream Jordan

Spin by Lamar Giles

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan

Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

The Belles Series by Dhonielle Clayton

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Voice in My Head by Dana L. Davis

I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

The Evolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika and Maritza Moulite

Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron

A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

Solo by Kwame Alexander

A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

By Any Means Necessary by Candid Montgomery

War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi

Light It Up by Kekla Magoon

Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert

Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather

I am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina

The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz

The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Opposite Of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

Buried Beneath The Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

The Effigies Series by Sarah Raughley

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope edited by Patrice Caldwell

This Is My America by Kim Johnson

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

Nightmare of the Clans by Pamela E. Cash

Black Boy, White School by Brian F. Walker

Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson

Hush by Jacqueline Woodson

Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis

let's talk about how y'all made it impossible for poc to feel comfortable in fandom. how i have literal anxiety attacks every time a post of mine blows up bc i know someone is about to say stupid shit!!

let's talk about how y'all want to ship girls of color with people older than them consistently despite the sexualization we go through!!! y'all wanna defend shipping fr*zel as if hazel isn't 13 and as if black and indigenous girls are more likely to be murdered, assaulted and r*ped solely bc of their ancestry and skin tone.

y'all are so quick to explain what racism is to me as if I haven't spent my entire life living as a black girl, being called "fast" and "inappropriate" just bc my tits and my ass grew faster than the rest of my friends. as if my mom doesn't worry that every time i walk out the door, that i might not come home and she'll have to go down to the police station to give a statement or to the morgue to identify my body.

Once Upon An Eid edited by S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed 

Mirage by Somaiya Daud 

Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali 

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal 

The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah 

The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad 

The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf 

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty 

A Pocketful of Stars by Aisha Bushby 

This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik 

Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed 

The Love and Lies of Rukshana Ali by Sabina Khan

Amina’s Voice by Henna Khan 

The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar 

The Gauntlet by Karuna Riaza

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed 

Sofa Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik 

The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

Sunbolt by Intisar Khanani

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

A Very Large Expanse is Sea by Tahereh Mafi

Internment by Samira Ahmed

Written in the stars by Aisha Saeed

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 

Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING