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Black Lives Matter
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A History of Killing Black Men and Getting Away With It
If we don't address past as well as recent police shootings, the US is telling black men that their lives don't matter.
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Bill Moyers | The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality’s Never Far Away
Between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 recorded lynchings in the US.
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Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow
If we are to create a society that values black life, we cannot ignore the role of food and land.
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Talking Peace From Tehran to Ferguson: An Exhortation
What's behind the threat of war on Iran and what do we need to do to stop it?
Millions March NYC / Black Lives Matter
On December 13th 2014 after weeks of non stop protests in the city, more than 30,000 New Yorkers gathered in Washington Square Park for ‘Millions March NYC’ and marched …
How Subjected Bodies Are Connecting the Struggle Against Collaborating States
Like African-Americans, Palestinians have been the targets of systematic dehumanization, which serves to justify the violence leveled against them by their respective oppressors.
Mourners for Black Queer and Trans Lives Attacked by Castro Bar
Activists entered Toad Hall and the SF Badlands Bar to invite the mostly white clientele of these bars to join us in affirming that Black Lives Matter, but were …
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White People for Black Lives
I live in this moment as a white person who deeply believes in and who grew up in the Civil Rights Movement, when my family's lives and I were …
New Film on Jordan Davis Captures Family’s Struggle to Convict White Vigilante
A new film takes on the killing of 17-year-old Jordan Davis.
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Global Blackness
There has been an outpouring of global solidarity for the Black movement in the US by Black people in other countries.