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5 days ago · BLM was cofounded in 2013 as an online movement (using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media) by three Black community organizers—Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi. They formed BLM after George Zimmerman , a man of German and Peruvian descent, was acquitted on charges stemming from his fatal shooting of Trayvon ...
4 days ago · According to a TedTalk with a founder of Black Lives Matter Alicia Garza titled “An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter,” the measurement of social harm to Black people that impact the Black experience can’t be solely stated. It has to be looked at in comparison to white advantages to fully understand the scope of the problem.
5 days ago · A Travis County resident filed a petition to remove District Attorney José Garza from office. The effort comes a little over a month after Garza's landslide victory in March's Democratic primary. Travis County DA faces removal attempt under Texas law targeting 'rogue' prosecutors | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station
5 days ago · The filing alleges that the district attorney’s office has adopted a “blanket non-prosecution policy” for drug possession and cites Garza’s promise not to prosecute abortion crimes. The ...
2 days ago · Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long ...
- James McCosh Elementary School
- August 28, 1955 (aged 14), Drew, Mississippi, U.S.
- Emmett Louis Till, July 25, 1941, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
3 days ago · The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict [25] between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals (a group of communists supportive of Maoist political sentiment and ideology) and the Indian government. The influence zone of the Naxalites is called the red corridor, which has been steadily declining in terms of geographical ...
3 days ago · 73°. Austin Police Association responds to José Garza's nomination for Travis County District Attorney. Watch on. Travis County District Attorney José Garza is facing a removal from office ...
