Black lives matter

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  3/1/2021
  

  Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests

  The study relies on a quantitative method that evaluates the timing of events to approximate a control-group experiment. The mechanism remains unclear, but results suggest BLM protests lead to fewer police killings. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/15/2020
  

  What Obama Gets Wrong on 'Defund the Police'

  by Austin McCoy

  "If political budgets are moral documents, then divesting heavily from institutions that have the capacity to perpetuate harms is the moral thing to do."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/16/2020
  

  Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas Cleared of Charges of Conspiring to Topple Confederate Monument

  Virginia state senator L. Louise Lucas, who is Black, was cleared of charges related to this summer's protests against public monuments to the Confederacy. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/9/2020
  

  Voting Trump Out Is Not Enough

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The results of the 2020 election show that the Democratic Party will fail unless it is willing to abandon a futile effort to woo Republicans to the center and embrace popular policies that meet the needs of Democratic constituents. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  11/2/2020
  

  Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Black Lives Matter Organizer

  "The Supreme Court has long recognized that peaceful protesters cannot be held liable for the unintended, unlawful actions of others," said American Civil Liberties Union National Legal Director David Cole.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/28/2020
  

  How a Fight Over a Black Lives Matter Statement Transformed an Academic Association

  Debates catalyzed by a policy statement on the police killing of George Floyd illuminated political and generational rifts in the Puerto Rican Studies Association and led to a turnover of leadership.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  9/29/2020
  

  Power, Propaganda And What Justice Might Look Like For Breonna Taylor (audio)

  Historian Keisha Blain joins "On Point" to discuss the decision not to charge most of the police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor during a botched search warrant at her residence. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  9/17/2020
  

  Taking the Next Knee Is this Athletic Revolt For Real and Is It a Danger to Donald Trump?

  by Robert Lipsyte

  Today's protests by pro athletes, with the WNBA leading the way, appear to be advancing beyond past waves of activism in the world of sports. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  9/3/2020
  

  Good Trouble’ In A White Flight Suburb: Oak Grove High Teens Confront Racism

  by Ashton Pittman

  Black Lives Matter protests organized by high school students near Hattiesburg, Mississippi are responding to inequities created by the growth of white flight suburbs after "Brown v. Board of Education," when manipulated city and school district boundaries and private "segregation academies" helped whites to hoard resources and educational opportunity.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/4/2020
  

  Don’t Believe the Lie That Voting Is All You Can Do

  by Daniel Hunter

  Stop minimizing the work of movements.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7/29/2020
  

  Portland History Professor Says She Was Shot in the Head by Federal Agents

  "This is my home. I was protesting peacefully. So why did federal troops shoot me in the head?" said professor Maureen Healy.

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• 6/31/2020
  

  One Small View of a Big Picture

  by Arnold R. Isaacs

  A journalist and writer didn't expect a Black Lives Matter demonstration to happen in his mostly white, Trump-supporting suburban Baltimore community. Here are his observations on the event and what it might tell about white Americans' actions and attitudes. 

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• SOURCE: Brandeis University
  6/12/2020
  

  America’s Racial Reckoning: Black Lives and Black Futures in Historical, Political and Legal Context (STREAMING TODAY 12:00 NOON EDT)

  A panel featuring legal scholar Anita Hill and historian Leah Wright Rigeur discuss the current protest movements at 12:00 Noon Eastern today.   

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/8/2020
  

  Black Lives Matter Now Represents America’s Best Ambassadors

  by Vivien Chang

  Although America's official commitment to equality and justice has been uneven, its social movements for freedom have represented the best of the nation to the world. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/31/20
  

  How Black Lives Matter Is Changing What Students Learn During Black History Month

  What started locally in Seattle in 2016, inspired by a federal investigation into the higher rate of suspensions of black students compared to their white peers, has grown into a nationwide organizing effort.

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• 10/6/19
  

  Incognegro: How Law Enforcement Spies on Black Radical Groups

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  From COINTELPRO to Black Lives Matter. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/4/19
  

  Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Interviews LaShawn Harris and Max Felker-Kantor

  by AAIHS Editors

  Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment

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• 2/10/19
  

  Why the Congress of Racial Equality Has Been Forgotten – And Why It Still Matters Today

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  We need to go back to CORE to have a better understanding of the ongoing antiracist movement.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/15/19
  

  The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

  by Mike Jirik

  The student protests against anti-black racism at UNC Chapel Hill are part of a long history of student protest against racism that includes individuals like John Brown Russwurm. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  4-5-18
  

  What Was Missing From Memphis on the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination?

  by Simon Balto

  Historian Simon Balto says it was references to Black Lives Matter and other successors to the Civil Rights Movement.