The St. Paul, Minn, chapter of Black Lives Matter is calling for authorities to criminally charge the police sergeant who posted the “Run them over” message on social media, as first reported by the Pioneer Press. Via The Root: Sgt. Jeffrey Rothecker apologized Wednesday for his post, which appeared ahead of …
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We first reported on this as it was happening on Martin Luther King Jr Day. DiBlasio clearly wasn’t ready for this!
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2015 was, by some definitions, a historic year for race relations in the United States. On one end of the spectrum, Black Lives Matter firmly established itself unequivocally as much more than a hashtag, but an organized and determined struggle to stop police terror and inequality. From the opposite side, …
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2015 was a year marked, among other political and social issues, by widespread discussions on the intersection of race and law enforcement. It also saw the continued increase of video footage exposing what many saw as double standards and racial bias from police forces. The rise of the Black Lives Matter …
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New York City mayor Bill DiBlasio had hoped to be able to deliver a speech extolling the virtues of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr with minimal confrontations. It turns out, he found himself caught between the legacy of the past and the determination of Black Lives Matter to create an …
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In a weekend-long series of actions aimed at reclaiming/restoring Martin Luther King Jr’s history of radicalism and revolutionary action, Black Lives Matter activists chain linked cars together and blocked traffic at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Via The Guardian: “Today is the day when we reclaim MLK’s radical legacy,” …
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Video footage shows protestors chaining their cars to the Bay Bridge to block westbound traffic into San Francisco. They have a banner reading “Black Health Matters” and have built a shrine to the victims of police shootings. Another protest group currently blocks an I-80 onramp. KTVU reports: “Police have begun …
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Britney Packnett has penned a powerful piece of Time asserting the continued existence of Black Lives Matter and the fight for racial justice. Via Time: It has been 17 months since Michael Brown lost his life in Ferguson, Mo., and protestors took to the tear-gassed, blood-stained streets near my home …
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Well, file this one under the outlandish and bizarre, even for Fox News Networks. Speaking to Alveda King – the niece of MLK well known for her conservative views – the co-hosts of Fox and Friends suggested that the recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations scheduled throughout the country had turned the …
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"We Shall Overcome": funeral procession for racism, poverty, imperialism, gentrification #ReclaimMLK @BLM_Boston pic.twitter.com/UCuT7Kc5LT — Liza Behrendt (@lizaveta9) January 18, 2016 Via Truthout.org: Increasingly, there are calls to “Reclaim King” as a radical. It is true that his assertion of Black peoples’ right to life, dignity and reparations was revolutionary.He recognized the …
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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr woke up to a rousing chorus of demonstrators Monday morning, joining the growing chorus urging their respective resignations. Via SF Examiner Protesters lined the block where Suhr lives with a small row of effigies of dead bodies and invited the …
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