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SOURCE: Vox
4/2/2022
A Bizarre War on Protest By Republican Judges
"If protest leaders can be hauled into court — and potentially forced to pay out of their own pockets — for the actions of a single protest attendee, then no sensible person will organize a protest."
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SOURCE: The Cut
1/31/2022
The Return of the Mass Protest
by Elizabeth Hinton
Although mass protests are far more peaceful than they were in the 1960s, reviving nonviolent direct action tactics associated with MLK, the police response to them has been more heavily armed and violent.
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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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