#letters for black lives

Letters for Black Lives is a set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities.

An amazing team of more than 330 volunteer translators just dropped 26 translated letters in support of #BlackLivesMatter! Use these letters to talk to your family and community about why we must support #BlackLivesMatter. Get the letters here and stay tuned for more translations to come!

“Since the first letter in 2016, we’ve had four years of increased racism within the US and another rise of white supremacy around the world. So this year, the community wrote another letter — because we are sad and angry, but also because we are full of love for our families and have hope for a more just and equitable future.”

The first set of 2020 letters includes:
Albanian, Armenian (Eastern), Bangla, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hmong, Indonesian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Sylheti, Tagalog, and Turkish.