The liberal media pounced on a documentary at the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas. The documentary, “Stranger Fruit”, was produced by Jason Pollock and featured video from the convenience store where Michael Brown was last seen before his fatal encounter with police officer Darren Wilson. However, the documentary footage was criticized by […]
The Nation, a left-wing website, wrote a piece about St. Louis mayoral candidate Tishaura O. Jones. Jones has previously served in public office as city treasurer, but now set her sights on the mayor’s office in St. Louis. Among her political platforms are the following: Close “Workhouse”, a St. Louis jail Placing social workers in […]
National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed Patrisse Cullors and romanticized how the Black Lives Matter movement was a powerful one. But, NPR did not list a single accomplishment that the movement produced, other than protests, instigating riots and property damage in Ferguson, Missouri, and the sniper attack in Dallas, Texas that claimed six police officers’ lives. […]
Since the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has appeared to fizzle without political progress, indoctrination is the next step for The Left. This from The College Fix: “Black Lives Matter Week” began yesterday at schools all over the Philadelphia region, and not all educators are happy about it. The group Caucus for Working Educators is sponsoring the event which […]
Black Lives Matter made headlines in 2016, with academics, college administrators and college students taking up this banner of anti-police and anti-white privilege on their own college campuses. Here are ten articles from this year on how Black Lives Matter rhetoric made headway at college campuses: High School and George Washington University students held anti-Trump […]
Can’t the Left stop making holidays political? Black Lives Matter’s Facebook page hosted a Facebook Live video of a Black Lives Matter choral group singing a liberal, anti-Trump version of Christmas carols:
This is not a joke: Liberal black activists have launched a monthly “subscription box” designed for white people “to not only financially support Black femme freedom fighters, but also complete measurable tasks in the fight against white supremacy.” The subscription service is called Safety Pin Box and was launched last week. Wearing a safety pin […]
The following is from the Washington Post piece that Barbara Reynolds, a civil rights activist who was a part of the 1960s movement, penned in response to Black Lives Matter tactics: Black Lives Matter is a motley-looking group to this septuagenarian grandmother, an activist in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Many in my crowd admire the […]
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Thirteen protesters have been sentenced to five days in jail for illegally blocking traffic on Interstate 95 in Richmond during a Black Lives Matter protest in July. All 13 demonstrators pleaded guilty Monday afternoon in Richmond General District Court as part of a plea agreement. While the judge allowed some to […]
The Left loves to make family events political, apparently. A college student, Rachel Malstrom, at the University of Maryland wore a ‘Black Lives Matter t-shirt, was asked to cover it up, and she used it to become a viral Twitter sensation: “I don’t see ‘Black Lives Matter’ as a political statement. Black lives matter and […]
