Social media as an organizing tool has propelled into full force with more people working—and organizing—from home, since the sheltering in place protocols of March 2020. Increasingly, social media has been used to crowdsource and disseminate messaging guides, canvassing templates, and media toolkits, in addition to getting the word out about teach-ins with grassroots activists and coordinating large rallies and protests.

One group that has been at the forefront of digital organizing around racial justice is the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), an explicitly abolitionist, anti-capitalist network that includes more than a hundred and fifty organizations. The work of M4BL advances racial justice by directly influencing and amplifying progressive policy and practice. Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, has also led effective social change campaigns targeted at changing the representation of Black communities in pop culture, politics, and beyond.