Posts Tagged ‘Black Lives Matter (BLM)’
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Thousands Gather For March On Washington
Thousands of demonstrators braved sweltering temperatures in the nation’s capital on Friday to demand an overhaul of the country’s criminal justice system and push for racial equality.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter goes big on policy agenda
The BREATHE Act is the centerpiece of the policy agenda activists are pushing after months of demonstrations over racial injustice.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter Grows as Movement While Facing New Challenges
Demonstrations against police shootings and a March on Washington reflect a cause more enduring than many predicted.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Protesters gather to drown out Trump’s RNC speech
Demonstrators gathered around the White House for what was billed as a “noise demonstration and dance party” to drown out President Donald Trump’s speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Milwaukee Bucks Lead Strike In Pro Leagues To Protest Racial Injustice
Led by the Bucks, professional sports teams in several leagues have taken their most dramatic steps yet in an effort to raise awareness about social justice issues.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Tennessee Passes Law That Would Punish Protestors By Taking Away Their Right to Vote
Republican lawmakers and a Republican governor have green-lit a new law in Tennessee that makes it possible for people to have their voting rights revoked as punishment for participating in protests.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – The Black National Convention
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and Electoral Justice Project will host the 2020 Black National Convention (BNC) live broadcast.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Texas Spent Hundreds of Hours Investigating, Finding and Arresting BLM Protesters
Special agents have spent the summer looking across social media posts, surveillance footage and YouTube videos in an effort to identify protesters they suspect of committing crimes.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Rally at Red Arrow Park draws crowd on DNC’s final day
The largest crowd of the week gathered at Red Arrow Park for an event to protest the Democratic National Convention and support the Black Lives Matters movement. Hundreds of masked individuals met in the downtown Milwaukee park where Dontre Hamilton was shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer in 2014.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – All Black Lives protesters march through Bristol
The first big city centre protest since the Black Lives Matter march on June 7, when Bristol protesters began a domino effect around the world. They toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and rolled him into the harbour sparking similar actions around the globe.
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