the influence of the black lives matter movement

The influence of the Black Lives Matter movement includes advocacy for policy changes related to Black liberation and criminal justice reform. The movement gained international attention during global protests in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

2 articles, 1 video, 1 book · about 2 hr 10 min of reading and viewing

The reading path

1. Read
   

   "Black Lives Matter: the movement, the organization, and how journalists get it wrong" · cjr.org · 3 min read

   Black Lives Matter coverage is strongest when it places the movement in historical context. In a New Yorker feature, Cobb contrasts the movement and organization's horizontal organization with the more hierarchical civil rights movements or organizations of decades past.

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   the influence of the black lives matter movement · Wikipedia · 60+ min read

   Delrish Moss was sworn in on May 9, 2016, as the first African-American police chief in Ferguson, Missouri. He acknowledged challenges including diversifying the police force, improving community relations, and addressing issues that catalyzed the Black Lives Matter movement. A BLM rally in Melbourne, Australia, drew 3,500 people in July 2016 and emphasized mistreatment of Aboriginal Australians by the Australian police and government, linking the protest movement to local injustices.

3. Watch
   

   Busting police brutality myths: Race, junk science, and big data | DeRay Mckesson | Big Think · YouTube · 8 min watch

   DeRay Mckesson discusses how the federal government does not collect information about police killings in any systemic way, and how Black Lives Matter organizers created Mapping Police Violence as a single-stop database with the most comprehensive data about police killings. He also discusses state policies that can make it difficult to hold officers accountable.

4. Book
   

   Between the World and Me · Bookshop.org

   Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates describes, in a letter to his son, the feelings and realities of being Black in the United States, recapitulates the history of violence against Black people and incommensurate policing of Black youth, and uses his friend Prince Jones's killing to argue that racism affects Black people of means as well.

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