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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. #Where to help 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. #New or upgraded articles 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. #New media 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. #Participants 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.

Where to help

Collaborations / getting to GA/FA

Suggested collaborations / articles that would be good to get to Good Article or Featured Article status include:

  • needed work:
  • 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

Missing articles

Editor suggestions

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:

Other lists with articles that need to be created

Integrating public domain material

Google Books has many pre-1925 issues of The Crisis (NAACP publication) available scanned online.[5] 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!

Check out Civilian_Complaint_Review_Board for the one in NYC Shushugah (talk) 21:53, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
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:

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.

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

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
  14. George Floyd protests in Indiana
  15. George Floyd protests in Iowa
  16. George Floyd protests in Kansas
  17. George Floyd protests in Kentucky
  18. George Floyd protests in Louisiana
  19. George Floyd protests in Maine
  20. George Floyd protests in Maryland
  21. George Floyd protests in Massachusetts
  22. George Floyd protests in Michigan
  23. George Floyd protests in Minnesota
    George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–St. Paul
  24. George Floyd protests in Mississippi
  25. George Floyd protests in Missouri
  26. George Floyd protests in Montana
  27. George Floyd protests in Nebraska
  28. George Floyd protests in Nevada
  29. George Floyd protests in New Hampshire
  30. George Floyd protests in New Jersey
  31. George Floyd protests in New Mexico
  32. George Floyd protests in New York (state)
    George Floyd protests in New York City
  33. George Floyd protests in North Carolina
  34. George Floyd protests in North Dakota
  35. George Floyd protests in Ohio
    George Floyd protests in Columbus, Ohio
  36. George Floyd protests in Oklahoma
  37. George Floyd protests in Oregon
    George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon
  38. George Floyd protests in Pennsylvania
    George Floyd protests in Philadelphia
  39. George Floyd protests in Puerto Rico
  40. George Floyd protests in Rhode Island
  41. George Floyd protests in South Carolina
  42. George Floyd protests in South Dakota
  43. George Floyd protests in Tennessee
  44. George Floyd protests in Texas
  45. George Floyd protests in Utah
  46. George Floyd protests in Vermont
  47. George Floyd protests in Virginia
    George Floyd protests in Richmond, Virginia
  48. George Floyd protests in Washington (state)
  49. George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C.
  50. George Floyd protests in West Virginia
  51. George Floyd protests in Wisconsin
  52. 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

Current Good or Featured article nominees

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New media

Please place the newest images at the top.

California

District of Columbia

New York

North Carolina

Oregon

Texas

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

See also