Category: Black Lives Matter

— ALICIA GARZA, THE ROOT I was in high school when I was assaulted by someone I knew. I grew up believing rape happened to people who didn’t know better—or should have known better. My stories of sexual violence, the ones I believed, were those in which a woman had agency and didn’t use it. […]

Law enforcement groups in multiple states have put pressure on domestic violence organizations for standing against racism. — MELISSA JELTSEN, HUFFPOST Over the summer, Embrace, a domestic violence organization in northwestern Wisconsin, decided to hang Black Lives Matter signs at its four locations. It was a small but meaningful sign of allyship amid a national […]

— Grace Hauck, USA Today Dozens of people had gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for a third night of protests demanding justice for Breonna Taylor when a carbarreled through the crowd, hitting several protesters. “It just went straight into the middle of the crowd and veered off toward the left,” said Samantha Colombo, 25, an Albuquerque resident […]

Seven years ago Tometi helped to create what is possibly the biggest protest movement in US history. She explains what the critics of BLM get wrong, how her family’s story made her an activist and why she is certain the movement will succeed — Ellen E Jones, The Guardian Maybe Opal Tometi is not the […]

The founder of BLM discusses the need for momentum in the fight for justice. —  Amira Rasool, i-D:Vice Every major opposition movement has its flaws. In the mid-20th century during America’s classic civil rights movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) arose […]