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Black Lives Matter’s Patrisse Cullors on Creating a New Economy of Nonviolence
Black Lives Matter's Patrisse Cullors speaks about her violent childhood and the “economy of violence.”
For Those Who’ve Considered Drowning
Over a century after the transatlantic slave trade ended, we are still faced with the pervasiveness of the drowning Black body.
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Nonviolence for Whom?
If violence isn't the answer, somebody should tell the police.
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For White Anti-Racists Holding Back From Stepping Up in These Black Lives Matter Movement Times
All over the country I'm talking with white anti-racists who are struggling with the tensions of centering Black voices.
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#BlackLivesMatter – Alicia Garza on the Hashtag That Became a Civil Rights Movement
#BlackLivesMatter began before Ferguson.
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From the Steps of the Supreme Court to the Streets of Baltimore
If police and vigilante forces can kill without consequence, then equality for Black LGBTQ people will always be an illusion.
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On Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising
We still don't know the names of the racist police officers that brutally murdered Freddie Gray. All we know is that they have been suspended with pay. We are …
Baltimore, Country at a Critical Juncture
Our country is at a critical juncture. Since the beginning of this year alone, a Black person has been killed by police at the rate of one every eight …
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The Baltimore Rebellion and Newton’s Third Law of Motion
The Baltimore Rebellion follows the natural laws of physics, Newton's Third Law of Motion and it is the language of the unheard.
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Why Should We Care?
Surely one of the questions that comes to mind as we read the various commentaries on the skirmish between Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson is "Why Should We …