Black Lives Matter
Members of the Justice League NYC were joined by New York City politicians, civil rights leaders, and activists as they presented plans of action against racial injustices…
Taking a page from the FBI’s COINTELPRO program of the 1960s, “intelligence analysts” from Mall of America in Bloomington, Minneapolis set up a fake Facebook account to…
Keep checking this page through 11:59 p.m. on Saturday for photos and Tweets from #BLM247. Why? As the people from Black Lives Matter said in…
Because it is a social construct, race can often be a complicated matter. However, racism – notably, as it works in America – is a…
The story: all too familiar. The aftermath: taking it to the streets. Late Friday evening, protests erupted in Madison, Wisconsin after an unarmed black teen…
African-American communities throughout the country have long been plagued by police brutality. The deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Ezell Ford (pictured) last…
A “Hands Up” walkout of Congressional staffers Thursday on Capitol Hill was only the beginning of what is shaping up to be several days of planned…
The movement #BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer George Zimmerman was acquitted for his crime, and the slain 17-year old was posthumously placed on…
For a few weeks now, I and presumably other writers like me, have been asked to brace ourselves for this moment and to have our…