Tagged with "BLM"
Why Black Lives Matter Activists Are Demanding A $15 Minimum Wage
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — On Thursday, low-wage workers across the country are taking to the streets to demand a $15 minimum wage. In New York, the protests were scheduled for the same day that a New York police officer was set to be sentenced for the killing of Akai Gurley, one of the most high-profile police misconduct cases in recent city history.The Huge Refugee Crisis That’s Already Displaced 220,000 People
The portrayal of the refugee crisis that has garnered significant international attention is often of a Syrian holding onto a dinghy for dear life, heading to Europe to escape the violence and turmoil back home in the Middle East.
Minnesota Lawmaker Tries To Make Black Lives Matter Protesters Pay For Police Overtime
Black Lives Matter protesters in Minnesota have shut down the Mall of America twice, blocked an interstate highway near downtown Minneapolis, occupied part of the airport, and camped outside a police precinct in north Minneapolis. The protests were sparked in part by the 2014 deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police officers and rekindled late last year after Minneapolis resident Jamar Clark was shot and killed by police officers.Half The Victims Of Police Brutality Are People With Disabilities, Study Finds
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Rodney King beating
Orrin Hatch Gives Trump A Pass On The KKK
With Donald Trump exiting Super Tuesday still looking like the presumptive GOP presidential candidate, some establishment Republicans are interpreting his comments in ways that will allow them to support him despite the race-related controversies embroiling his campaign.Watch: Black Lives Matter Activist Confronts Hillary Clinton About ‘Superpredator’ Comment
During a private fundraiser Wednesday night in Charleston, South Carolina, a Black Lives Matter activist took Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to task for racially loaded comments she made in the 1990s.
The Other Slain Black Teenager Kendrick Lamar Honored At The Grammys
When a shackled Kendrick Lamar walked on the Grammys stage with a chain gang in tow, everyone knew he was getting ready to make an explosive statement about violence against black bodies. And he did just that, performing the “Blacker the Berry” — while surrounded by men in cages — and then launching into the hit single-turned-black-power-anthem “Alright.”The Speech That Black Lives Matter’s Founder Wants To Hear From Obama Tonight
Last year, Black Lives Matter activists made it a practice to interrupt politician’s speeches to chant the name of their movement and to demand that elected officials recognize the high rate that black men and women are killed at the hands of police.