Black lives matter

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/4/2021
  

  In Rittenhouse Trial, Language Matters

  by Felicia Angeja Viator

  Kyle Rittenhouse's trial evokes the 1943 "Zoot Suit Riots," when white vigilantes, including uniformed servicemen, beat Mexican American youth in Los Angeles and other cities. The courts contributed to exonerating the vigilantes by repeating the language of a moral panic that characterized the victims as "gangsters" and hoodlums.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/6/2021
  

  Did Last Summer's BLM Protests Change Anything?

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  A commission convened by the Mayor of Philadelphia exemplifies the American preference for symbolism over substance in recently proclaimed "racial reckonings." 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/17/2021
  

  Black Lives Matter Misses the Point About Cuba

  by Jorge Felipe Gonzalez

  American activists who recognize the antiracist achievements of the revolutionary Cuban government miss the ways that that government's authoritarianism and more recent economic policies disproportionately harm Afro-Cuban people. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/12/2021
  

  The Complicated History Behind BLM's Solidarity With The Pro-Palestinian Movement

  "We need to understand that Black identification with Zionism predates the formation of Israel as a modern state," says Robin D. G. Kelley, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles who studies social movements.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/25/2021
  

  We are Told America is Living Through a ‘Racial Reckoning’. Is it Really?

  by Simon Balto

  Policing historian Simon Balto argues that White America today seems most intersted in defending a personal sense of innocence over racism rather than working for justice. The new culture war over "critical race theory" is evidence.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/25/2021
  

  George Floyd Changed The World of Athlete Activism

  by Carl Suddler

  The protests over George Floyd's murder involved Black athletes at a time when athletes are highly visible and broke with a decades-long tendency to steer clear of controversy.

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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.