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The legacy of Black Lives Matter. The power of the movement lies in making the public, and politicians, take notice. A woman holds a “Black Lives Matter” sign during a rally at Woodhouse Moor ...
- Race
Vox’s home for coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement...
- Breonna Taylor
Black Lives Matter demanded that more money be shifted to...
- Race
Jul 30, 2019 · After all, some of the most visible BLM activists in the U.S. media have frequently articulated that one of the movement's major goals is to “center” the lives and contributions of “Black Queer and trans folks, disabled folks, Black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum” (Garza Reference Garza 2014). An important caveat to this ...
- Alvin B. Tillery
- 2019
Apr 21, 2023 · In his new book, “ After Black Lives Matter,” the political scientist Cedric Johnson blows right past the sort of hemming and hawing that has become de rigueur in today’s conversations about ...
Oct 8, 2019 · In “Patrisse Khan-Cullors’s When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir: Storytelling as Black Feminist Counter-Attack on Mis-labelling of Black Identity,” Browdy introduces storytelling as a means of understanding Black self-valuation and activism for Black communities, particularly in the era of #BlackLivesMatter. Browdy explains that storytelling is “the sharing of ...
- Louis M. Maraj, Pritha Prasad, Sherita V. Roundtree
- 2018
- Liberation in The Black Atlantic World
- The Haitian Revolution and 'True' Freedom
- Haiti's Legacy and Black Liberation Today
- The Future of The Common Good
These ideas of Black liberation as a common good aren't new; in examining the history of the Black Atlantic — countries in Atlantic Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean that are all linked through the history of the transatlantic slave trade — we see a region that's connected not just geographically, but also through the shared experience...
For centuries, Western notions of the common good, and what it meant to be liberated, have taken their definitions from the French and American revolutions. But according to Pierrot, French and American ideas of who was included in that common good were extremely narrow. But when the Haitian Revolution began in 1791, it set a new standard for the m...
Today's global Black Lives Matter movement takes the Haitian ethos a step further by placing at the centre of their work those who are most oppressed and most marginalized in society. According to Woodly, this ideal comes from the movement's roots in Black feminism, which thinks about justice from the point of view of those who are the most impacte...
Today, the work of the Black Lives Matter movement has yielded improvements in carceral trends in the U.S., voting rights, political engagement and the criminal justice system. Some of these changes include a slow but steady decline in both state and federal prison populations over the last several years, widespread removals of corrupt and regressi...
Black Lives Matter: The three women who founded a global movement The year 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things - not least the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world. The ...
Jul 26, 2020 · And that Black lives matter.”. The phrase “Black lives matter” inspired Garza’s friend, Patrisse Cullors, to create a hashtag. Almost instantly, it went viral. “I wanted it to go viral ...
