Black lives matter

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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. 

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• SOURCE: The Cavalier Daily
  3-26-18
  

  Ibram X. Kendi tells UVA crowd we need a national conversation about whether we should be memorializing Jefferson

  He suggested that students at the University of Virginia should lead the way.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  1-30-18
  

  Jeanne Theoharis calls out the abuse and misuse of the Civil Rights Movement

  by Jeanne Theoharis

  In a new book the political scientist and historian argues that the protests of Black Lives Matter are, contrary to the critics, fully in keeping with those of the sixties.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-20-17
  

  Colin Kaepernick and the Myth of the ‘Good’ Protest

  by Glenda Gilmore

  Rosa Parks was a hero. So were the students who sat in at the Woolworth lunch counters. But they knew that their heroism was possible only because of decades of what Ella Baker called “spade work.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-26-17
  

  100 years ago African-Americans marched down 5th Avenue to declare that black lives matter

  by Chad Williams

  One hundred years later, as black people continue to insist that “Black Lives Matter,” the “Silent Protest Parade” offers a vivid reminder about the power of courageous leadership, grassroots mobilization, direct action and their collective necessity in the fight to end racial oppression in our current troubled times.

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• SOURCE: NBC 5 Chicago
  7-12-17
  

  50 Years Later, Newark Riots of 1967 Recall an Era Echoed by Black Lives Matter

  The rioting that began July 12, 1967, left 26 dead, more than 700 injured and nearly 1,500 arrested, mostly black.

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• SOURCE: Process
  5-10-17
  

  Black historians at the OAH risked the charge of presentism to show the links between racial violence in 1917 and Black Lives Matter today

  "In our scholarly mission to validate the widest possible span of black subjects as intellectuals we must be courageous enough to challenge Western ways of knowing when those very structures so often invalidate these black feelings as an element of black knowledge."

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  4-6-17
  

  Why Black Lives Matter Still Matters

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  Three years after BLM launched a nationwide uprising against police violence, what's next for the movement? 

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• SOURCE: King 5
  4-4-17
  

  Remember Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale? He's still around and he's still got plenty to say.

  In a video interview he recalled how as a Panther he demanded to watch the police carrying out their duties.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-1-16
  

  Black Lives Matter coalition demands reparations

  It’s one of their six platform demands.

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• 7-31-16
  

  Want a Happy Ending to the Crisis over Police Shootings?

  by Michael McQuillan

  Here’s a way forward.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  7-20-16
  

  The GOP has been implying Black Lives Matter is more divisive than the Civil Rights Movement

  by Paul Rosenberg

  Liberals say it’s factually not true.