These events swayed Americanpublic opinionin favour of the Black Lives Matter movement while drawing wide attention to the problem of entrenched racism in American society. There were calls for greater police accountability, and in 2021 Chauvin was found guilty of murder. It was a rare case of ...
While, as Dr. King noted, the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, our history of racial discord in this country has been one of a slow and violent bending of that moral arc. As difficult as it may be, we need to understand that these failures...
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Black Lives Matter organizer who was held liable for a protester’s attack on a police officer at a protest he organized.
“He had to deal with racism, he had to deal with being othered, he had to fight for his Blackness in spaces that didn’t even want his Blackness or his opinion,” said Kellogg. “I don’t have to deal with it to that extent, but I know what it me...
When the Hypocritical Hashtag – #BlackLivesMatter – brought their“peaceful protests”to Atlanta, Bottoms said many “motherly” things, but did nothing to quell the violence. And when her understaffed police force acted aggressively to control what she had called chaos, instead of supporting the...
In 2014, Black Lives Matter rose to national prominence by protesting the police shooting of an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. However, many conservative commentators questioned why Black Lives Matter was not attempting to prevent “Black-on-Black crime.” ...
theEmancipation Proclamationdeprived theConfederacyof the bulk of its labor forces and put international public opinion strongly on the Union side. Some 186,000Black soldierswould join the Union Army by the time the war ended in 1865, and 38,000 lost their lives. The total number of dead at ...
Black Lives Matter must be more than just a slogan or a preserve of African Americans being shot by the American police force. It must be all encompassing for b...
Black Lives Matter started with a hashtag. Now it is a rallying cry, a cause and a movement in the wake of the deaths of black men at the hands of police. The latest police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile have spurred a new round of protests across the country and wor...
“I’ve been very critical of for-profit Black banks and the capitalist logic that governs them,” says ProfessorGuy Mount, assistant professor at Wake Forest University. “In my opinion, member-ownedcredit unionsand nonprofit co-ops are the way forward for Black communities hoping to not only...