Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter/June 2020

Wikipedia wants YOUR help to improve our coverage of Black Lives Matter and related topics! For the entire month of June 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. provides lists of articles curated by editors and machines which could use improvement. If this is your first time editing Wikipedia, that section is a good place to start. 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. lists recently uploaded images and other media that can be used in articles. 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.

Collaborations / getting to GA/FA
Suggested collaborations / articles that would be good to get to Good Article or Featured Article status include:
 * Black Lives Matter - currently GA, let's get it to FA
 * needed work:


 * Police brutality in the United States -- currently C class, let's get it to GA
 * needed work:
 * better lede section
 * clarify "recent events" (when?)
 * update/cleanup legal section
 * go through sources - are any good sources (books etc) missing from refs/further reading


 * Juneteenth -- currently B-class, Let's improve to GA
 * African-American newspapers -- currently listed as stub. Let's reassess, and improve to B or GA. This one is especially worthwhile because it can help Wikipedia editors better assess source materials for other articles. (see also: List of African-American newspapers
 * U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present) -- currently C class. Has been the subject of several classroom projects. (also Colin Kaepernick)
 * Rooney Rule -- "affirmative action" for sports executives. Start class.
 * Tabor-Loris Tribune -- currently stub/start. In 1953 this newspaper in KKK country won a Pulitzer for public service, for publishing over 100 stories on the KKK, which drove an FBI investigation resulting in 254 KKK convictions. Need more than a stub here.
 * put additional suggestions here
 * Police reform in the United States This article needs to be updated with what is currently happening. It's currently a C; it would be nice to see it be a GA.
 * Racism in Oregon -- Start class, needs a LOT of work! -Pete Forsyth (talk) 17:11, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Editor suggestions

 * Bill Lewinski/Force Science Institute - possible sources:
 * Fuck the police (slogan) From article Police abolition movement: The phrase "fuck the police," which according to researchers David Correia and Tyler Wall "emerged as the unofficial motto" during the Rodney King riots, is sometimes understood as a call for police abolition. Source: Police: A Field Guide
 * SB 1421 ("landmark police transparency law" in California )

Wikidata generated lists
These lists are auto-generate to show pages which do not exist on the English Wikipedia, but do have articles on other language Wikipedias:
 * African women
 * African American people
 * Black women in visual arts
 * Slaves
 * Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers
 * African-American women physicians
 * Dictionary of African Biography
 * US Educational institution: Alabama A&M University, Flordia A&M University, Howard University, North Carolina A&T State University, Prairie View A&M University, Spelman College, Tuskegee University

Other lists with articles that need to be created

 * African-American artists
 * African women feminists (crowdsourced)
 * Black women (crowdsourced)
 * Missing entries from the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
 * Caribbean poets
 * Missing entries from Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
 * Missing entries from Writing African-American Women
 * Missing entries from Black Women Scientists in the United States
 * Missing entries from the Dictionary of African Biography
 * Female African writers in French language
 * African women by country (crowdsourced)
 * Souls Grown Deep Foundation/Gee's Bend Quilters (crowdsourced)
 * African American Women in Dictionaries (crowdsourced)
 * List of African-American newspapers and media outlets
 * List of women in Nigeria and the diaspora from the WikiGap Nigeria Online Challenge + additional women towards the end

Integrating public domain material
Google Books has many pre-1925 issues of The Crisis (NAACP publication) available scanned online. All pre-1925 issues are in the public domain. Some of these include biographical profiles that can be adapted for inclusion in Wikipedia. They also often have photographs of prominent black people, which can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Note that some portions of 1925-or-later issues may no longer be in copyright either, but this analysis is a little more nuanced. See here.

Find an article
Below are some ideas for articles to work on this month; feel free to help curate the list!


 * BlueLeaks -- created June 22. Police documents leaked on Juneteenth
 * Ruschell Boone -- created June 21. A NY1 reporter covering the protests in NYC. Article is bare and could use some expansion!
 * Killing of Andres Guardado -- created June 20
 * Death of Tamla Horsford -- created June 19
 * Police union -- created June 10
 * Race relations
 * Racial bias in criminal news in the United States
 * Racial profiling in the United States
 * Police brutality in the United States - possible sources:
 * Shopping while black
 * Use of deadly force by police in the United States
 * 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
 * "Alright"
 * Bars4Justice
 * "Cop vs. Phone Girl"
 * "Don't Shoot"
 * Fruitvale Station
 * I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
 * "Lavender (Nightfall Remix)"
 * Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story
 * Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement
 * Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge
 * Whose Streets?
 * Assata's Daughters
 * Campaign Zero
 * Don't Shoot Portland
 * Mothers of the Movement
 * Movement for Black Lives
 * Say Her Name
 * Dave Grossman (author)/On Killing - possible sources:
 * Thin blue line
 * Blue wall of silence
 * All Lives Matter
 * Qualified immunity
 * Articles about individual police departments - add NPOV coverage of notable use of force incidents, reform efforts, civilian review boards, etc.
 * Civilian police oversight agency/citizen review board - possible sources:
 * Check out Civilian_Complaint_Review_Board for the one in NYC Shushugah (talk) 21:53, 10 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Article about individual police unions - add NPOV coverage of positions and advocacy related to use of force and reform efforts; one possible source: (see also above about creating an article on police unions in general)
 * police union exists now Shushugah (talk) 21:53, 10 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Marilyn Mosby - Baltimore prosecutor, much in the spotlight for her actions re: Death of Freddie Gray. Many current references to her in public discourse. A major NYT magazine profile, linked since 2016 on the talk page, is still not cited in the bio.

Stubs!
Stubs are very short articles in need of expansion:


 * Improve a random stub on the African diaspora (Category)
 * Improve a random stub on an African American (Category)
 * Improve a random stub relating to Africa (Category)
 * Improve a random stub relating to the Caribbean (Category)

Assessment table
Here's a table of all African diaspora articles by quality. A good place to start is Top or High importance articles that are C class or below.

Finding sources and research help
Need help doing research on a topic or getting access to resources? There are a number of Wikipedians who are willing and able to help provide access to sources for use on the encyclopedia.
 * User:Wugapodes has online access to a lot of books and papers. Let them know if you need resources.
 * You can request a specific resource at WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
 * The Wikipedia Library provides a number of Wikipedians with access to academic databases for improving content. Wikipedians by access to a digital library organizes users with such access by the database they have access to, and many will be willing to share resources with you.
 * WikiProject Resource Exchange and the associated category has wikipedians with access to sources and willing to share them.
 * Google Books - snippets can be gleaned most productively at times and can be used to produce a start class article and defy the odds
 * Newspapers.com has many newspapers. Free access can be granted via the Wikipedia Library Card Platform
 * JSTOR has various journal articles
 * The Internet Archive has numerous books available for virtual check-out
 * Free English newspaper sources lists various free newspapers
 * Google Sheet with Black Women Academics list showing completeness of articles, images, etc.
 * List of papers and books by topic curated by the Stanford Psychology Department Diversity Committee
 * C-SPAN video search for "Black Lives Matter", C-SPAN speakers identified as representing Black Lives Matter, "George Floyd" search results at C-SPAN - Note: There are many many many additional pertinent videos available for use at the C-SPAN website that may not be tagged with Black Lives Matter.

New or upgraded articles
''Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new. Add Template:WikiProject Black Lives Matter June 2020 to the article's talk page.''


 * 1) Racism in Oregon - upg
 * 2) Miles Davis - upg
 * 3) Lonnie Bunch - upg
 * 4) Rashida Bumbray - upg
 * 5) Souls Grown Deep Foundation - upg
 * 6) David Driskell - upg
 * 7) Lonnie Holley - upg
 * 8) List of African-American newspapers and media outlets - upg
 * 9) So You Want to Talk About Race
 * 10) Monica Webb Hooper
 * 11) Death of Shukri Abdi
 * 12) Juneteenth - upg
 * 13) Jari Jones
 * 14) Francesca Hayward - upg
 * 15) I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl
 * 16) Lucky Khambule
 * 17) Nazar (musician)
 * 18) Violet A. Johnson -upg
 * 19) Brooklyn Mack - upg
 * 20) Gus Courts
 * 21) Clarence Mini
 * 22) Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference
 * 23) Joyce Hansen
 * 24) Portia K. Maultsby
 * 25) Mellonee V. Burnim
 * 26) Snow on tha Bluff (song)
 * 27) Ellie Kisyombe
 * 28) Bulelani Mfaco
 * 29) "Black Parade" (song)
 * 30) We Need Diverse Books - upg
 * 31) The Bigger Picture (song)
 * 32) Brandon McGee (politician)
 * 33) Soulé (singer)
 * 34) Elizabeth Thompson (Barbados)
 * 35) Loreen Ruth Bannis-Roberts
 * 36) Black suffrage in the United States
 * 37) James M. Baxter Terrace Housing Projects
 * 38) Otherside of America
 * 39) Erica Cody
 * 40) Zainab Boladale
 * 41) Oluwatoyin Salau
 * 42) Myra Smith Kearse
 * 43) Marcelino Sambé - upg
 * 44) Nikisha Fogo
 * 45) Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
 * 46) Killing of Charles Flynn
 * 47) Spirasi
 * 48) Me and White Supremacy
 * 49) Layla Saad
 * 50) Gene-Ann Polk Horne
 * 51) Ebun Joseph
 * 52) How to Be an Antiracist
 * 53) Vesla Weaver
 * 54) Reclaim the Block
 * 55) Jas Waters
 * 56) Police union
 * 57) Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm
 * 58) Antoinette Garnes -upg
 * 59) Irish Network Against Racism
 * 60) Ethel Ernestine Harper - upg
 * 61) Assault on Martin Gugino
 * 62) Violence interruption
 * 63) Craig Hall (dancer) - from redirect
 * 64) Central Park birdwatching incident
 * 65) Defund the police
 * 66) Eva Carter Buckner -upg
 * 67) George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
 * 68) Gwen Carr
 * 69) Ada Belle Dement - upg
 * 70) Mamie B. Reese
 * 71) Black Lives Matter Plaza
 * 72) Omar Jimenez
 * 73) I can't breathe
 * 74) Blackout Tuesday
 * 75) 8′46″
 * 76) Shooting of Sean Monterrosa
 * 77) Migrants and Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice
 * 78) Eric Underwood (dancer) - upg
 * 79) Gertrude Curtis"
 * 80) Cora Green
 * 81) Emmett Till Antilynching Act
 * 82) Ending Qualified Immunity Act
 * 83) Alberta Jeannette Cassell -upg
 * 84) Adah Jenkins -upg
 * 85) Barbara M. Watson -upg
 * 86) Maudelle Brown Bousfield
 * 87) Violet Lopez Watson
 * 88) Vashti Turley Murphy
 * 89) Emma Chambers Maitland
 * 90) Myrtle Smith Livingston
 * 91) Death of Nina Pop
 * 92)  Shooting of Greg Gunn, upgraded
 * 93) Death of David Dorn
 * 94) Police abolition movement
 * 95) Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland
 * 96) Black Pride Ireland
 * 97) Jackie Taylor (actress)
 * 98) Minnesota Freedom Fund
 * 99) Black Visions Collective
 * 100) Death of Adama Traoré
 * 101) The talk (parenting)
 * 102) Teressa Raiford
 * 103) Shooting of James Scurlock
 * 104) When the looting starts, the shooting starts
 * 105) Harry Adams (photographer)
 * 106) Shooting of William Leonard

George Floyd

 * 1) List of name changes due to the George Floyd protests
 * 2) List of police reforms related to the George Floyd protests
 * 3) Actions against memorials in the United Kingdom during the George Floyd protests
 * 4) List of police violence incidents during George Floyd protests
 * 5) Reactions to the George Floyd protests
 * 6) George Floyd Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act
 * 7) Entertainment industry response to George Floyd protests
 * 8) Killing of George Floyd
 * 9) List of George Floyd protests outside the United States
 * 10) George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom
 * 11) George Floyd protests in Australia
 * 12) George Floyd protests in New Zealand
 * 13) George Floyd protests in the Netherlands
 * 14) George Floyd protests in Canada
 * 15) George Floyd

George Floyd protests in the United States

 * 1) George Floyd protests in Alabama
 * 2) George Floyd protests in Alaska
 * 3) George Floyd protests in Arizona
 * 4) George Floyd protests in Arkansas
 * 5) George Floyd protests in California
 * 6) George Floyd protests in Colorado
 * 7) George Floyd protests in Connecticut
 * 8) George Floyd protests in Delaware
 * 9) George Floyd protests in Florida
 * 10) George Floyd protests in Georgia
 * 11) George Floyd protests in Hawaii
 * 12) George Floyd protests in Idaho
 * 13) George Floyd protests in Illinois
 * George Floyd protests in Chicago
 * 1) George Floyd protests in Indiana
 * 2) George Floyd protests in Iowa
 * 3) George Floyd protests in Kansas
 * 4) George Floyd protests in Kentucky
 * 5) George Floyd protests in Louisiana
 * 6) George Floyd protests in Maine
 * 7) George Floyd protests in Maryland
 * 8) George Floyd protests in Massachusetts
 * 9) George Floyd protests in Michigan
 * 10) George Floyd protests in Minnesota
 * George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–St. Paul
 * 1) George Floyd protests in Mississippi
 * 2) George Floyd protests in Missouri
 * 3) George Floyd protests in Montana
 * 4) George Floyd protests in Nebraska
 * 5) George Floyd protests in Nevada
 * 6) George Floyd protests in New Hampshire
 * 7) George Floyd protests in New Jersey
 * 8) George Floyd protests in New Mexico
 * 9) George Floyd protests in New York (state)
 * George Floyd protests in New York City
 * 1) George Floyd protests in North Carolina
 * 2) George Floyd protests in North Dakota
 * 3) George Floyd protests in Ohio
 * George Floyd protests in Columbus, Ohio
 * 1) George Floyd protests in Oklahoma
 * 2) George Floyd protests in Oregon
 * George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon
 * 1) George Floyd protests in Pennsylvania
 * George Floyd protests in Philadelphia
 * 1) George Floyd protests in Puerto Rico
 * 2) George Floyd protests in Rhode Island
 * 3) George Floyd protests in South Carolina
 * 4) George Floyd protests in South Dakota
 * 5) George Floyd protests in Tennessee
 * 6) George Floyd protests in Texas
 * 7) George Floyd protests in Utah
 * 8) George Floyd protests in Vermont
 * 9) George Floyd protests in Virginia
 * George Floyd protests in Richmond, Virginia
 * 1) George Floyd protests in Washington (state)
 * 2) George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C.
 * 3) George Floyd protests in West Virginia
 * 4) George Floyd protests in Wisconsin
 * 5) George Floyd protests in Wyoming

Monuments and memorials

 * 1) Our Confederate Soldiers
 * 2) Statue of Calvin Griffith
 * 3) Christopher Columbus Monument (West Orange, New Jersey)
 * 4) Columbus' Last Appeal to Queen Isabella
 * 5) Howitzer Monument
 * 6) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Philadelphia)
 * 7) Statue of Christopher Columbus (St. Louis)
 * 8) Statue of Josephus Daniels
 * 9) Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Indianapolis)
 * 10) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Middletown, Connecticut)
 * 11) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Chula Vista, California)
 * 12) Bust of Christopher Columbus (Detroit)
 * 13) Statue of Christopher Columbus (New London, Connecticut)
 * 14) Thomas Jefferson (Bitter)
 * 15) The Pioneer (Eugene, Oregon)
 * 16) The Pioneer Mother (Eugene, Oregon)
 * 17) Gadsden Confederate Memorial
 * 18) Bust of John McDonogh
 * 19) Dunham Massey Hall Sundial
 * 20) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Miami)
 * 21) DeKalb County Confederate Monument
 * 22) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Camden, New Jersey)
 * 23) Statue of Jefferson Davis (Frankfort, Kentucky)
 * 24) Equestrian statue of Caesar Rodney
 * 25) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Wilmington, Delaware)
 * 26) Statue of Thomas Guy
 * 27) Statue of Robert Clayton
 * 28) Robert E. Lee Memorial (Roanoke, Virginia)
 * 29) Richmond Police Memorial
 * 30) Statue of Philip Schuyler
 * 31) Statue of John Fane Charles Hamilton
 * 32) Vance Monument
 * 33) List of public statues of individuals linked to the Atlantic slave trade
 * 34) Statue of Robert Baden-Powell, Poole
 * 35) Confederate Monument (Portsmouth, Virginia)
 * 36) Confederate Soldier Memorial (Huntsville, Alabama)
 * 37) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Yonkers, New York)
 * 38) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Columbus State Community College)
 * 39) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
 * 40) Florida's Tribute to the Women of the Confederacy
 * 41) Statue of Christopher Columbus (North End, Boston)
 * 42) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Richmond, Virginia)
 * 43) Statue of Robert Milligan
 * 44) Confederate Memorial (Jacksonville, Florida)
 * 45) Statue of Leopold II of Belgium, Ekeren
 * 46) John B. Castleman Monument
 * 47) Statue of Orville L. Hubbard
 * 48) Statue of Edward W. Carmack
 * 49) George Floyd protests
 * 50) Gloria Victis (Confederate monument)
 * 51) Nash County Confederate Monument
 * 52) Norfolk Confederate Monument
 * 53) Athens Confederate Monument
 * 54) Statue of Edward Colston
 * 55) Statue of Williams Carter Wickham
 * 56) One Riot, One Ranger
 * 57) Statue of Sam Davis
 * 58) Statue of Raphael Semmes
 * 59) J. E. B. Stuart Monument
 * 60) Jefferson Davis Memorial (Richmond, Virginia)
 * 61) Matthew Fontaine Maury Monument
 * 62) Stonewall Jackson Monument
 * 63) Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Birmingham, Alabama)
 * 64) Statue of Charles Linn
 * 65) List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
 * 66) Statue of Frank Rizzo

DYK nominations
Help review these pages nominated for Did You Know; especially useful if you need a QPQ for your own nomination


 * Police union
 * When the looting starts, the shooting starts
 * The talk (parenting)
 * Police abolition movement
 * Black suffrage in the United States
 * George Floyd protests in New York City (needs review; nomination)
 * Shooting of David McAtee (needs review; nomination)
 * Bail fund
 * Shooting of Jamarion Robinson
 * Game of Change
 * Layla Saad and Me and White Supremacy
 * How to Be an Antiracist (needs review; nomination)
 * Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire (needs review; nomination)

Current Good or Featured article nominees
''There's nothing here. Better get busy!''

New media
Please place the newest images at the top.

Recognition

 * When creating articles from scratch, and given they meet the criteria, you should definitely nominate them for DYK, so that it can appear on the front page!
 * Barnstar to come!

Participants

 * — Wug·a·po·des​
 * --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:49, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Eddie891 Talk Work 22:56, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * TJMSmith (talk) 00:39, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Missvain (talk) 02:46, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Pete Forsyth (talk)
 * HaeB (talk) 11:29, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Shanluan (talk) 22:05, 3 June 2020 (UTC)]]
 *  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  22:34, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * — Bilorv (  Black Lives Matter  ) 08:17, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Praxidicae
 * – Majavah talk &middot; edits 16:35, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Smirkybec (talk) 18:15, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Penny Richards (talk) 18:25, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Stussll (talk) 22:05, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Corachow (talk) 22:07, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Whisperjanes (talk) 16:58, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Treetopz (talk) 22:21, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 23:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Abishe (talk) 07:11, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 *  Mccunicano ☕️  21:40, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * DMT Biscuit (talk) 02:05 11 June 2020 (GMT)
 * Sydney Poore/FloNightUser talk:FloNight 03:03, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Ottermost (talk) 18:16 13 June 2020 (GMT)
 * Tvc 15 (talk) 03:24, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Ipigott (talk) 12:13, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * MapleSoy (talk) 01:35, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * DrThneed (talk) 23:54, 26 June 2020 (UTC) working on historic slave trade in the UK/Caribbean