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Want to help us get the word out? Can you help performers on the day of the show?  Can you help manage the broadcast?  We would love your help.  viaconcert2020@gmail.com

We are proud to announce the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund is our official beneficiary. Please donate here. To achieve lasting change they need our sustained support. Please join us in making your donation monthly. Learn more about NAACP LDF here. 

There are so many amazing Black-led and civil rights organizations as well as artists of color hit hard by COVID-19 who could use your help. Please see a list of organizations below, and please visit the performers page  for links to support artists and order their music, art, books, videos and more.

George Floyd Memorial Fund 

Campaign Zero 

The Bail Project - 

Fair Fight Action 

Communities Against Police Brutality - 

Black Visions Collective 

Justice and Equality Fund (GoFundMe) - 

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - 

Week of Action in Defence of Black Lives (also has ways to engage) - 

Listen and learn about the history and present of racism in America and what you can do: 

• 1619 -
• Code Switch -d
• About Race -
• Pod for the Cause - 
• Seeing White - 
• The Breakdown - 
• What Matters from Black Lives Matter - 

What to watch to learn about this issue:

13th (Ava Duvernay)

Slavery by Another Name (PBS documentary) 

When They See Us (Ava Duvernay) 

Whose Streets? (PBS documentary)

We Need to Talk About Injustice (Bryan Stevenson) 

The Hate You Give (George Tillman Jr.)

Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) 

Books and articles that light the way:

How to Be Antiracist, 

Ibram X. Kendi

Me & White Supremacy, 

Layla F. Saad

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, Harriet A. Washington

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, 

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

Voting is powerful, and the right to vote is essential for every American. 

https://www.vote.org/

It is key to fight for the right of every person to have easy access to both registration and voting sites. In addition, we need to fight to change the laws that say that felons, even those who have served their time, are not allowed to vote.  These laws are unjust and disproportionately affect Black voters due to our history of racism in the justice system. 

Two Organizations working on voting rights:  

Fair Fight

National Commission on Voting Rights