1 Page Open Document The interviewee talks about how violence and racial injustice brought about the message black lives matter. She talks about how not all lives are valued as the same and when people are just killed for senseless reasons, not all lives matter. This is why people use the ...
Black Lives Matter May Not Mean What You ThinkByline: Tia Mitchell What do you think when you see the words Black Lives Matter? In...Mitchell, Tia
Today, the Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc. is a global organization that’s active in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, although it has supporters all over the world. The BLM guiding principles are to eradicate white supremacy and intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities through...
In 2014, the police shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old Black man, caused his community in Ferguson, Missouri to erupt in a display of grief and anger. The protests spread to neighboring communities and towns, and there were even support protests in cities like New Yo...
The Black Lives Matter movement has brought politics to Instagram feeds once monopolized by sunsets, plants, babies, and influencer peddling. Some of the politicking on Instagram has indeed been performative, but the same can be said for other social media platforms. The conversation has also ...
Patrisse Cullors has had a major influence on the Black Lives Matter movement ever since it began in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting. Here she explains what many people get wrong when it comes to how they think about Black History Month and where the focus should be. Topics ...
Black Lives Matter Movement | BLM History, Goals & Accomplishment from Chapter 9 / Lesson 5 76K Learn about the Black Lives Matter movement. Explore how the Black Lives Matter movement came about and what the movement has accomplished since that time. Related...
The people who have had the luxury of ignoring this particular issue is the white community, which has had the privilege of not questioning—on a large scale—whether the systems they live in are detrimental to their livelihoods, based on their skin color. But as the Black Lives Matter ...
's mayor has instituted a curfew through the weekend, and Gov. Andy Beshear called up the National Guard for “limited missions.” Protesters streamed through the streets, where stopped cars honked and one man leaned out a sunroof, his fist in the air and shouted, “Black lives mat...
During Thanksgiving grace, I give silent thanks that North Korea has not yet fired a nuclear warhead at the United States. If it hit Seattle, I’d lose my daughter and granddaughters. If it hit Manhattan, my son would be vaporized, never saying good-bye to his children. No matter. They...