Black lives matter

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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.

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• 7-19-16
  

  The 1968 Police Shoot-out with African Americans that America Forgot

  by James D. Robenalt

  It happened just 5.6 miles from where Donald Trump will accept the Republican Party’s nomination for president.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  7-15-16
  

  MLK Would Never Shut Down a Freeway, and 6 Other Myths About the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter

  by Jeanne Theoharis

  Calling out these myths is more than setting the historical record straight. The “propaganda of history,” as W.E.B. Du Bois reminded us a century ago, becomes a way of “giving us a false but pleasurable sense of accomplishment”—for soothing and justifying inaction in the face of persistent racial inequality.

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• 7-14-16
  

  Our Week from Hell

  by Walter G. Moss

  Race and guns, April 1968 and July 2016.

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• SOURCE: Twitter
  7-12-16 (accessed)
  

  Twitter lights up with a counter hashtag: #AllLivesDidn'tMatter

  It’s in response to the AllLivesMatter meme.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Caller
  7-10-16
  

  Cornell historian Russell Rickford reportedly claims the "Fraternal Order of Police is a terrorist organization"

  At a rally in support of Black Lives Matter he said he was tired of waiting for reforms of police departments and small concessions from elected leaders on the issue of police brutality.

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• SOURCE: The Dallas Morning News
  7-7-16
  

  'Black Lives Matter' painted on UT Confederate memorial after Alton Sterling, Philando Castile shootings

  The message was scrawled across the George Littlefield Fountain, a prominent memorial that anchors the school's South Mall.