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Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter Profile: Alicia Garza

“As leftists, as people who care about the future of humanity, our core task is to build this movement, but bigger than that our task is to build a left,” Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza said at the 2015 Left Forum. Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors founded the Black Lives Matter movement […]

Black Lives Matter Profile: Alicia Garza

Black Lives Matter Profile: Opal Tometi

Last week, Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi declared to the United Nations, “ … I would argue that the international community faces 3 core challenges to advancing human rights. Those are: global capitalism; [sic] white supremacy and the suppression of democracy.” Opal Tometi started the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 with Alicia Garza and […]

Black Lives Matter Profile: Opal Tometi

Black Lives Matter Profile: DeRay McKesson

DeRay McKesson, organizer, activist and educator has received attention unheard of for an activist. Having advocated for issues relating to children, youth and families for 15 years, Mckesson rose to fame after leaving his job to move to Missouri and protest after the death of Mike Brown. Ferguson was the first city Mckesson had physically […]

Black Lives Matter Profile: DeRay McKesson

Black Lives Matter Profile: Patrisse Cullors

Patrisse Cullors, one of the three founders of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement, is an “artist, organizer and freedom fighter” from Los Angeles, CA.  After the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, Cullors co-founded the movement with a hashtag. According to the BLM website, “Black Lives Matter is an ideological […]

Black Lives Matter Profile: Patrisse Cullors

Link List — July 18, 2016

Former Miss Alabama calls cop killer a ‘martyr’ — July 13, 2016 Healing after Dallas, without Obama — July 12, 2016 Black Lives Matter activist calls for abolishing the police…from Chicago — July 12, 2016 Black Lives Matter’s violence undermines its credibility — July 12, 2016 Hey Black Lives Matter, stop terrorizing our cities — July […]

Link List — July 18, 2016

Sheriff David Clarke: Black ‘Lies’ Matter

The Black Lives Matter movement “…doesn’t care any more about the lives of black people than the Ku Klux Klan … ” Sheriff David Clarke asserted during an interview with Accuracy in Media. “Black Lives Matter, which I have renamed ‘Black Lies’ L-I-E-S Matter, it’s nothing more than an astroturf operation, it’s just the latest […]

Sheriff David Clarke: Black ‘Lies’ Matter

Link List – July 13, 2016

A lot has been going on for over the past month related to Black Lives Matter: Dallas police chief David Brown tells protesters to “Get off that protest line and put an application in” to the police force to make real change — July 12, 2016 Milwaukee Police Chief: Police officers “are the only ones […]

Link List – July 13, 2016