For some months now, my wife and I have been taking long, pandemic-induced walks around the affluent suburb where we live just outside of Boston. Before the winter snows arrived, we were struck by the number of Black Lives Matter (BLM) signs we encountered — in something like an i...
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was a prominent social movement largely focused on raising awareness of and reducing police use﹐f‐force and fatal interactions with police. However, opponents of the movement have feared it could lead to decreased proactive policing and increased crime. Using...
(AP) — Black Lives Matter is a social movement, like the tea party or the civil rights movement, and therefore can’t be sued, a federal judge ruled Thursday. A police officer anonymously sued Black Lives Matter and DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist in the movement, after being ...
“One of the things about Black Lives Matter is that it’s become a rallying cry. That’s really important,” documentarian Stanley Nelson Jr., who has chronicled everyone from Marcus Garvey to the Black Panthers, tells me as he speaks about the value of slogans in movements. “How many ...
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But she made a mistake: On Wikipedia, the “24 percent” figure was apparently tied to a different report, which found that “arrests for unlicensed vending,” rather than unlicensed vending as such, “fell by 24 percent” (emphasis mine). Her reliance on Wikipedia, an unreliable source, ...
Mckesson and other protesters have since sued the city of Baton Rouge and local law enforcement officials over their arrests, accusing police of using excessive force and violating their constitutional rights. The lawsuit dismissed Thursday didn't accuse Mckesson of throwing the rock that injured th...
Decades before “Black Lives Matter” became a global hashtag, hip-hop artists were profiled, targeted and vilified for standing up for Black lives.
Sunday's protests lead to 23 arrests in London, at least three of which were for breach of COVID-19 measures. Eyewitness, by Jason Farrell, home editor It's not the largest, but one of the most passionate marches I've witnessed. There were no mass-produced placards just a multit...
Birmingham Police Lt. Sean Edwards confirmed to CBS News that three people were asked to leave the event after the skirmish broke out. All three departed, and no arrests were made. This is not the first instance of altercations at the billionaire's campaign events. ...