During a protest rally for the police-related shooting death of Black man Thurman Blevins in Minneapolis, a white woman decided it was going to be her day to be placed on the fade administration list. The woman, who complained about the gathering crowd at the downtown event, walked up to one young woman, snatched her […]
A scam of the highest order was unleashed onto the unsuspecting after it was revealed the largest Black Lives Matter Facebook page was run by a white man in Australia. Ian Mackay was the mastermind behind the page that had twice as many users as the official BLM page, and even took donations under the banner of […]
Black Lives Matter activist Muhiyidin d’Baha launched himself in headlines when he was seen on live video attempting to snatch a Confederate Flag from a White man protesting in favor of the symbol last year. Reports say d’Baha was shot in New Orleans early Tuesday morning (Feb. 6), eventually dying of his wounds.
Prayers up for Erica Garner. The daughter of Eric Garner suffered a heart attack over the weekend and is reportedly in a coma.Â
A lawsuit launched against Black Lives Matter by a police officer in Baton Rouge injured in a 2016 protest for Alton Sterling had his case thrown out.
Colin Kaepernick‘s silent protest in 2016 began as a response to the uneven examples of how police of treated people of color in the country, sparking a debate most notably sustained by movements like Black Lives Matter. In support of Kaepernick’s goal and the speculation that NFL teams are refusing to hire the free-agent quarterback, […]
A Staten Island judge has made may for nearly $4M in payments to the family of Eric Garner in a wrongful death settlement. Garner was murdered (don’t get it twisted) in 2014 after being placed in a chokehold by a cop, who still has his job.Â
Lisa Durden, now a former professor at Essex County College in New Jersey, was fired from her post after an appearance on a Fox News program. Durden defended an exclusively all-Black Black Lives Matter party and had a war of words with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson over the issue.
Black Lives Matter is in the news, but fortunately in this instance not for yet another Black life needlessly lost. The founders of the movement’s formal organization have been awarded a global peace prize.
A White police officer in Michigan is accusing city government of making racially insensitive remarks after he revealed he was part-Black.
Milan Bolden-Morris, a Florida high school senior, completed a usual rite of passage by attending her school’s prom over the weekend. What made the 17-year-old stand out apart from the crowd was that her dress was inspired by Black Lives Matter and featured images of several figures central to the movement.
The Black Lives Matter movement was sparked in protest of the alarming number of shooting deaths undertaken by police against Black people. Recently unsealed documents show that the NYPD was successful in going undercover and infiltrating the ranks of the group to the point of being included in internal discussions and text chain conversations.
