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#ATLisReady, a Black Lives Matter Offshoot Group, Refers to Israel As “Apartheid Israel”

#ATLisReady, “a collective of student activists, community organizers, and leaders working to amplify Black and other marginalized voices in Atlanta,” published several demands including a call for the city’s police department to exit the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE). The GILEE program creates the opportunity for Israeli and Georgian police to learn from each other […]

#ATLisReady, a Black Lives Matter Offshoot Group, Refers to Israel As “Apartheid Israel”

CNN Glosses Over Violent Remarks of Milwaukee Suspect’s Sister to “Burn that s*** down”

The title of the CNN piece was, “Tensions high after Milwaukee police shooting“, and glanced over Sylville Smith’s sister’s remarks to burn down the suburbs of Milwaukee: Family and friends of Sylville Smith, 23, held a candlelight vigil at the site of Saturday’s shooting in a residential area of North Milwaukee… Smith’s sister, Sherelle Smith, […]

CNN Glosses Over Violent Remarks of Milwaukee Suspect’s Sister to “Burn that s*** down”

Black Lives Matter Doesn’t Know What to Do about Glenn Beck’s Call for Dialogue

It’s rather entertaining to see Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists confused on whether to support Glenn Beck’s call for more inclusive dialogue from the BLM activists and police officers, or to not support Beck’s position. However, the NBC News article focused on some conservative backlash against Beck’s new position on the radical activist movement, and […]

Black Lives Matter Doesn’t Know What to Do about Glenn Beck’s Call for Dialogue

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: 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