After 2013, the black community in the US received a call to action from the Black lives matter campaign. This came after the tragic death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman s conviction. The movement s leaders claim that it is both an ideological and a political intervention in...
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The black lives matter movement was established to call for an end to the seeming oppression that black people in the United States experience (New York Times, Oct 22, 2017). When we look closely at American jails, we notice that black people are seven times more likely to be arrested...
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BlackLivesMatter began as an international movement within the African-American population to protest violence, racial profiling, the use of disproportionate force, and extrajudicial killings of African-Americans by police. The #BlackLivesMatter campaign began in 2013 with the use of the Twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after police officer George Zimmerman was cleared of all...
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Social movements all around the world are familiar with the Black Lives Matter movement, which was founded by three black women. Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a civil rights organization dedicated to combating the dehumanization of black people in American society (Carney 2016, pp. 185). At its inception, the effect...
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Black Lives Matter is an organization founded by three feminist feminists, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, with the aim of combating police violence against people of color (Johnson, 2020). Following the increasing police abuse cases in the United States, the campaign has endured a string of events that...
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