Category: Black Lives Matter

— Sanya Mansoor, TIME The vast majority of Black Lives Matter protests—more than 93%—have been peaceful, according to a new report published Thursday by a nonprofit that researches political violence and protests across the world. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) analyzed more than 7,750 Black Lives Matter demonstrations in all 50 states and Washington […]

“We can thank ‘Hawk’ for maintaining the photographs, the costumes, the films, the memorabilia, and the artifacts of New Orleans street culture,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a statement — The Associated Press, The Root A Black woman harassed by a white passenger on her Delta flight to Washington, D.C., last week is singing the airline’s […]

‘My work is about uprooting structural racism from every aspect of our society — our economy, our government and our communities.’ By Alicia Garza, Opinion Contributor, USA TODAY Black communities should be powerful. We deserve dignity, fairness and justice. Those core beliefs have shaped my work for the past two decades. I helped start the Black Lives Matter Global […]

By Michael E. Miller, EJI MARION, Va. — It had been three weeks since the cross burning. Three weeks since Travon Brown’s sense of triumph from leading a Black Lives Matter march was consumed by the fire in his front yard. In the threat-filled days that followed, the 17-year-old black high school student looked at […]

By Katie Way, Vice In the wake of George Floyd’s killing and a national uprising, police officers are actually facing backlash for their entries into a canon of bad online behavior from law enforcement. Protesters and their supporters aren’t the only ones who have gotten vocalon social media in the last two weeks: Across the United States, […]

By Jae Hyun Shim,, Truthout In 2018, members of the Minnesota grassroots groups Reclaim the Block and Black Visions Collective dropped a banner at Minneapolis City Hall. On it were two lists: on the left, three budget items on the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) budget, totaling $9 million. The right side was significantly longer, listing programs and organizations where […]

By Stephanie Guerilus, The Grio The West Coast rap legend offers to pay the retail store’s losses if they agree not to press charges on looters Ice Cube is offering to pay $100K to the retail giant Walmart. The rapper is hoping to pay the amount of money that looters are alleged to have stolen from […]

By Matthew Allen, The Grio Three white men suing Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser claim that Black Lives Matter is a ‘cult orthodoxy’ Three white men have sued Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bower for a Black Lives Matter mural painted on the street leading to the White House, according to a report from The Washington Times. The group, among them a […]