Tag: Black Lives Matter

Black votes matter, but some question whether Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton’s endorsements from relatives of police brutality victims are appropriate.

When it comes to people of color, the police make San Francisco “Baghdad by the bay.”

Irving Allen on creating an inclusive movement. “You’re not organizing unless you’re training up the next generation.”

Activists turned politicians are nothing new. Just look at Bernie Sanders.

City officials were slapped with a Justice Department lawsuit after requesting changes to a hard-fought legal agreement.

How many times will our justice system refuse to charge police with killing unarmed black people?

Black Lives Matter Minnesota raised its voice in multiple locations December 23rd, disrupting shopping, the metro system and the airport to protest the November killing of Jamar Clark, a black man by Minneapolis police.

Senator Sanders likened what he saw in the impoverished area to a Third World country: “Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you are in a wealthy nation."

Civil-rights pioneer Julian Bond died last week at the age of 75. Bond was a big supporter of Black Lives Matter, which has been challenging business as usual, bringing the issues of racism and inequality to a broad audience.

While a historic conference to raise national attention about police brutality and other pressing issues took place in Cleveland this past weekend, the event ended in violence against Black Lives Matter supporters. But why?