Shanelle Matthews, activist in residence at the New School: "It’s about introducing a different world, a different way of thinking and perspective to a group of people who are oriented in a totally different place...
Read MoreAnti-Blackness is bad for everyone because anti-Blackness exists to reject people. When any person is viewed as disposable, the whole system suffers morally and no one is safe…
Read MoreThat technique was used against the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Panthers — against every major advocate for the rights of black people in the nation’s history…
Read MoreShanelle Matthews joined the Black Lives Matter Global Network in January 2016, having spent seven years in journalism and public interest communications…
Read More“Through real media representation and healthy debate, this movement led by Black, queer and gender nonconforming people is bringing democracy within reach...”
Read MoreTo garner votes and stoke anti-establishment flames, Trump latched on to the ideology of white supremacy and incentivized violence on the campaign trail…
Read MoreWhen Trump and his administration are making plans to “have insurance for everybody,” he needs to mean us too…
Read MoreWe need everyone to vision a future in which all Black Lives Matter…
Read MoreCalifornia Black Lives Matter organizer Jasmine “Abdullah” Richards became the first black person in the United States Tuesday to be sentenced for what, until last year, was considered attempted felony lynching…
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