Black Lives Matter Movement Recruits Other People of Color: Report
From the beginning, Black Lives Matter supporters have included protesters and activists of all races. In a recent campaign, people of color are turning to their own communities and recruiting them to...
View ArticleLa. ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Bill Goes Into Effect
Louisiana’s “Blue Lives Matter” bill went into effect Monday, making it a hate crime to intentionally harm a police officer or first responder because of his or her uniform, KSLA reports. As the...
View Article#M4BL: New Policy Agenda Centers Black Demands as Presidential Campaign Hits...
August will mark the two-year anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown and the uprising of black youths in Ferguson, Mo. Many of us are asking ourselves, “What has changed?” Black people and our...
View ArticleBaltimore County Police Fatally Shoot 23-Year-Old Black Woman After Hourslong...
Updated Tuesday, Aug. 2, 10:23 a.m. EDT: On Tuesday morning, BallerAlert posted a tweet, which the site reported showed two videos that Gaines took of the incident before she was killed. In one video,...
View ArticleWebsite Allows White People to Offer ‘Reparations’ to People of Color
There is a new website called Reparations that, as its name implies, allows white people to offer what they can to people of color, who can also request help for specific items or needs, the Washington...
View ArticleKorryn Gaines Doesn’t Need to Be Perfect for Black Men to #SayHerName
On Monday, Baltimore County police shot and killed 23-year-old mother Korryn Gaines while she was holding her 5-year-old son, making her the ninth black woman to be killed by police this year. I feared...
View ArticleOpen Letter to White People Who Are Obsessed With Black-on-Black Crime
Dear Caucasian Brethren, I decided to sit down and write this letter to you because every time I try to have a nuanced conversation with you, I am interrupted by the same shrill refrain. Here is an...
View ArticleVa. Officer Guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter in Shooting Death of 18-Year-Old...
A Virginia jury found a white former police officer guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the April 2015 shooting death of an unarmed black teen who was accused of shoplifting, ABC News reports. Former...
View ArticleDear Mike: Another Year Has Passed and We’re Still Fighting for You
I started my time at Advancement Project one year ago. My first big assignment came only three weeks after my first day: I was being sent to Ferguson, Mo. As the leader for our youth-criminalization...
View Article1 Year Later: BLM Protester Who Interrupted Bernie Sanders’ Rally Discusses...
It’s been a year since Mara Willaford and I jumped up onstage with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in what would become one of the most controversial Black Lives Matter actions to date. Filled...
View ArticleLawyer: NC Man Who Fatally Shot Black Man After 911 Call About ‘Hoodlums’ Is...
The lawyer for the family of a black man who was shot and killed in North Carolina after a 911 call reporting “hoodlums” in a Raleigh neighborhood has blasted the alleged shooter as “George Zimmerman...
View ArticleWhy the Black Lives Matter Movement Has to Take on Charter Schools
Black school systems are treated like black men and women in America. Urban schools are broken up, experimented on and policed in efforts to improve them. The reformers expect students, teachers and...
View ArticleAt least 2 Injured During Second Night of Milwaukee Protests
Shots were fired during the second night of protests in Milwaukee over the police shooting of Sylville K. Smith, a black man who was reportedly gunned down as he fled a traffic stop on Saturday...
View ArticleFormer Aston Villa Footballer Dalian Atkinson Dies After Police in England...
English footballer Dalian Atkinson died after police used a Taser on him near his father’s home in Telford, England, The Guardian reports. Atkinson, a former Aston Villa striker, who also played for...
View ArticleNM Restaurant is Now Selling ‘Black Olives Matter’ Shirts, Hats
Paisano’s Italian restaurant in Albuquerque, N.M. is back at it again with the stirring of the controversial pot, now selling “black olives matter” shirts and hats, after sparking outrage and national...
View ArticleNew York City to Settle with Family of Akai Gurley for $4,100,000
New York City has agreed to pay more than $4 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of Akai Gurley, who was fatally shot by an officer in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing...
View ArticleBaltimore Police Lieutenant Suspended After Email Calling Protesters ‘Thugs’
A Baltimore police lieutenant has been suspended after sending an email to the city’s entire police force calling members of the Black Lives Matter movement “thugs,” ABC2 reports. Police Lt. Victor...
View ArticleDC Police Investigating Twitter Video of Black Woman Being Pinned to Cruiser...
Washington, D.C., police are launching an internal investigation after a Twitter video surfaced showing a black woman being lifted off her feet and pinned to a police vehicle by an officer, the...
View ArticleMilwaukee Officer Threatened Online after Fatal Shooting of Sylville Smith
A Milwaukee police officer was the target of online threats from people identifying him as the cop who fatally shot Sylville Smith in an incident that sparked outrage and violence in the city over the...
View ArticleMilwaukee Officer Who Fatally Shot Sylville Smith Knew Him From High School,...
Sylville Smith, the 23-year-old man who was gunned down by a Milwaukee police officer over the weekend, and the officer who fatally shot him knew one another from high school, Smith’s family says,...
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