Black Lives Matter imagines a world where Black people across the diaspora thrive, experience joy, and are not defined by their struggles. In pursuing liberation, we envision a future fully divested from police, prisons, and all punishment paradigms and which invests in justice, joy, and culture...
"Once upon a time, people of my skin color didn't have the opportunity to learn and I'm going to take advantage of this time to fight those odds. I will be an educated Black man in American no matter what happens," Maddicks said....