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6 days ago · The Making of Black Lives Matter by Christopher J. Lebron A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers.Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon ...
5 days ago · DeRay Mckesson, the executive director for Campaign Zero, joins CBS News with more. After George Floyd's death in Minneapolis sparked an international movement for police reform, some efforts to ...
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6 days ago · In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect the regulation of African American people in many settings, including the public education system and the criminal justice system, into a powerful narrative about ...
4 days ago · Black Lives Matter. More than 1,000 people died at the hands of law enforcement in 2022 and wide racial disparities persisted among those deaths. One of those killed last year was Amir Locke, who ...
2 days ago · John Sullivan, a Black Lives Matter activist who was previously arrested as part of a Black Lives Matter riot, is reportedly under arrest related to this week’s Capitol rioting. Sullivan, from Salt Lake City, Utah, acknowledges he stormed the Capitol and witnessed and recorded on video the shooting death of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt at ...
6 days ago · The Black Lives Matter (#BlackLivesMatter) movement building project was founded by three Black women: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi in 2013. This page contains resources to research the history, platforms, organizing tools, and political interventions coming out of this movement. For further research, try the following:
3 days ago · Thirteen protesters have been sentenced to five days in jail for illegally blocking traffic on Interstate 95 in Richmond during a Black Lives Matter protest in July. All 13 demonstrators pleaded ...
