11 Racial Justice Organizations You Should Be Following in 2025
Advancement Project
Advancement Project is a next generation civil rights organization. Founded in 1999, Advancement Project envisions a future where people of color are free – where they can thrive, be safe and exercise power. They believe in the genius of ordinary people to achieve lasting and permanent change.
Black Lives Matter (BLM)
BLM Envisions and advocates for a future fully divested from police, prisons, and all punishment paradigms, a future which invests in justice, joy, and culture.
Color Of Change
Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. They help people respond effectively to injustice in the world.
Dream Defenders
The Dream Defenders was founded in April 2012 after the tragic killing of 17-year old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. That Spring, young Black, Latinx, and Arab youth marched from Daytona Beach Florida to Sanford Florida where Trayvon Martin was killed. With fire in their bellies, they then went back to their communities and campuses to organize. Today, the Dream Defenders is organizing Black and Brown youth to build power in our communities to advance a new vision we have for the state.
Equity in the Center
Equity In The Center® (EIC) works to shift mindsets, practices and systems in the social sector to center race equity and build a Race Equity Culture™.
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
FRRC is committed to ending the disenfranchisement and discrimination against people with convictions.
Live Free
Live Free is a national organization dedicated to ending gun violence and the mass incarceration and criminalization of our communities. Since 2011, they have been building a network of thousands of faith leaders, directly impacted leaders, and movement partners working to bring peace and healing to our cities.
Race Forward
Race Forward advances racial justice in our policies, institutions and culture. They support communities and public institutions in achieving a just multiracial democratic society through governance that advances racial justice.
NAACP LDF
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Using the power of law, narrative, research, and people, they defend and advance the full dignity and citizenship of Black people in America.
Native American Rights Fund
The Native American Rights Fund holds governments accountable. We fight to protect Native American rights, resources, and lifeways through litigation, legal advocacy, and legal expertise.
Showing Up for Racial Justice
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national organization that brings hundreds of thousands of white people into fights for racial and economic justice.