Black Lives Matter DC is a collective of organizers, activists, and artists in DC who work to combat anti-blackness and racialized oppression in all of its manifestations as experienced by Black and African diasporic people.

The mission of Black Lives Matter DC is to actualize liberation right now by confronting and dismantling structural oppression, creating radical healing spaces to process racial stress and internalized oppression, combating erasure of marginalized Black people everywhere it appears, building community power within Black neighborhoods, and forming critical connections with Black folks who share the same desire for collective liberation.