Posts Tagged ‘Black Lives Matter (BLM)’
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Protesters gather to drown out Trump’s RNC speech
Demonstrators gathered around the White House for what was billed as a “noise demonstration and dance party” to drown out President Donald Trump’s speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Milwaukee Bucks Lead Strike In Pro Leagues To Protest Racial Injustice
Led by the Bucks, professional sports teams in several leagues have taken their most dramatic steps yet in an effort to raise awareness about social justice issues.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Tennessee Passes Law That Would Punish Protestors By Taking Away Their Right to Vote
Republican lawmakers and a Republican governor have green-lit a new law in Tennessee that makes it possible for people to have their voting rights revoked as punishment for participating in protests.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – The Black National Convention
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and Electoral Justice Project will host the 2020 Black National Convention (BNC) live broadcast.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Texas Spent Hundreds of Hours Investigating, Finding and Arresting BLM Protesters
Special agents have spent the summer looking across social media posts, surveillance footage and YouTube videos in an effort to identify protesters they suspect of committing crimes.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Rally at Red Arrow Park draws crowd on DNC’s final day
The largest crowd of the week gathered at Red Arrow Park for an event to protest the Democratic National Convention and support the Black Lives Matters movement. Hundreds of masked individuals met in the downtown Milwaukee park where Dontre Hamilton was shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer in 2014.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – All Black Lives protesters march through Bristol
The first big city centre protest since the Black Lives Matter march on June 7, when Bristol protesters began a domino effect around the world. They toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and rolled him into the harbour sparking similar actions around the globe.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Portland reflects on role of white allies in movement
More than two months of protests in one of the whitest major cities in America have prompted deep introspection in Portland, Oregon’s small Black community about the role of white protesters in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Felony charges against BLM protesters are ‘suppression tactic’, experts say
Rights groups say prosecutors are trying to quash anti-racism protests with excessive charges threatening long prison terms.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – 7-year-old becomes symbol of hope for Black Lives Matter movement
Zuri Jensen, 7, became a symbol of hope and inspiration during the Black Lives Matter movement when a photo taken of her raising her fist in the air went viral.
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