Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter/July 2020

Wikipedia wants YOUR help to improve our coverage of Black Lives Matter and related topics! For the entire month of July 2020, we are holding the Black Lives Matter article improvement drive, a collaborative effort to improve our articles on topics relating to racism, racialized violence, and the African diaspora more widely. Whether you're new to Wikipedia or an experienced editor, your help is greatly appreciated. The recent killing of George Floyd and others have exposed continuing racial divisions in the United States. This has manifested in widespread protests and movements like Blackout Tuesday which are important topics for Wikipedia to cover. One of the best ways to fight ignorance and bias is knowledge, and improving Wikipedia content on African-Americans and the African diaspora more generally helps to educate the world and counter Wikipedia's systemic bias.

There are tons of ways you can help out! The page below is divided into sections to help you identify places you would like to work. lists articles which are further along in their development and could use attention from copy editors, proofreaders, and reviewers. If you don't have much time to write, the articles listed there would benefit from minor edits. If you have photos you can upload them under a free license to share with others. lists editors who have signed up to help with this effort. If you need advice or help, contact one of them on their talk page or post on the project talk page.

This campaign is a collaboration with WikiProject Women in Red's BLM/Anti-discrimination editathon, and complements the previous BLM June editathon.

Editor suggestions

 * MLK50 -- Nonprofit digital newsroom founded by Wendi C. Thomas in 2017 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by primarily reporting on economic injustice.
 * 50-a -- NYC law that shielded police records. Repealed in 2020. Expect lots to come from it. Related to SB 1421
 * Amistad Mutiny murals by Hale Woodruff
 * Bill Lewinski/Force Science Institute - possible sources:

New and improved content
''Most recent on top, please, specifying new or improved. Add  to the article's talk page.''


 * 1) John Lewis (civil rights leader), improved
 * 2) ChallengeAccepted, new
 * 3) Angeline Makore, new
 * 4) Black Lives Matter, improved
 * 5) Wall of Moms, new
 * 6) Hare Squead, new
 * 7) Celaviedmai, new
 * 8) Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, new
 * 9) Begin Again (book), new
 * 10) Mona-Lxsa, new
 * 11) Albina Ministerial Alliance, new
 * 12) 2020 deployment of federal troops in the United States, new
 * 13) George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon, improved
 * 14) Ingrid Silva, new
 * 15) Aph Ko, new
 * 16) Sherrilyn Ifill, improved
 * 17) Bernard Lafayette, improved
 * 18) William Barber II, improved
 * 19) Stacey Abrams, improved
 * 20) White Fragility, improved
 * 21) Dr. William R. Harvey Museum of Art, new
 * 22) Billy C. Hawkins, new
 * 23) Nadia Nurhussein, new
 * 24) Earl Gage Jr., new
 * 25) Dario Calmese, new
 * 26) Celeste O'Connor, new
 * 27) Lana Turner (stylist), new
 * 28) Statue of Joseph Bryan, new
 * 29) Statue of Benjamin Welch Owens, new
 * 30) Running while black, new
 * 31) They Were Her Property, new
 * 32) Rachael McLaren, new
 * 33) Sophie B. Wright, improved
 * 34) Wendi C. Thomas, new
 * 35) Martha Louise Morrow Foxx, improved
 * 36) Statue of Arthur Ashe, new
 * 37) The End of Policing, new
 * 38) If They Come in the Morning, new
 * 39) Statue of Alfred Mouton, new
 * 40) Statue of John Mason, new
 * 41) Statue of Andrew Jackson (Jackson, Mississippi), new
 * 42) Statue of Henry Watkins Allen, new
 * 43) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Columbus, Wisconsin), new
 * 44) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Trenton, New Jersey), new
 * 45) Judson Whitlocke Lyons, improved
 * 46) Statue of Junípero Serra (Sacramento, California), new
 * 47) Fred C. Sheffey, new
 * 48) James F. Hamlet, new
 * 49) Althea Waites, new
 * 50) Bad apples, new
 * 51) Statue of Frederick Douglass (Rochester, New York), new
 * 52) Mildred Pitts Walter, new
 * 53) Racism in the wine industry, new
 * 54) Statue of Willie McCovey, new
 * 55) Statue of George Whitefield, new
 * 56) Women, Race and Class, new
 * 57) Julia Coney, new
 * 58) Bust of Leopold II of Belgium, Ghent, new
 * 59) Statue of Williams Carter Wickham, improved
 * 60) Death of Christopher Kapessa, new
 * 61) Darryll Pines, new
 * 62) Alicia Graf Mack, new
 * 63) List of African-American ballerinas, improved
 * 64) List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests, improved
 * 65) Stonewall Jackson Monument, improved

Participants

 * --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 00:17, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * OurStreets (talk) 01:34, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Corachow (talk) 01:47, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Penny Richards (talk) 02:14, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Tvc 15 (talk) 02:32, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Missvain (talk) 02:58, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Sydney Poore/FloNightUser talk:FloNight 04:36, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * — Bilorv ( talk ) 09:26, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Praxidicae/Praxidicae (Praxidicae (talk) 12:01, 2 July 2020 (UTC))
 * Corachow (talk) 12:49, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * TJMSmith (talk) 16:55, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Treetopz (talk) 03:02, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * DMT biscuit (talk) 12:00, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Applejuicejoe (talk) 15:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Uelly (talk) 17:52, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * MapleSoy (talk) 22:12, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Citrivescence (talk) 04:57, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * HaeB (talk) 01:08, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Relevant WikiProjects

 * WikiProject African diaspora
 * WikiProject Civil Rights Movement
 * WikiProject Discrimination