Black Lives Matter Movement

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a loosely‐coordinated, nationwide movement dedicated to ending police brutality that rose to prominence in late 2014. It takes its name from a hashtag started by three Black feminist activists Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi but the movement and the hashtag are not identical (Freelon, McIlwain, & Clark, 2016). BLM has achieved national reputation through their online and offline organizing, obtaining extensive news media coverage and glowing references in music and entertainment television. Based on a horrendous incident that sparked a concern for a lot of Black people across the world, the sudden need for a social movement was born called BLM. Black Lives Matter is a national organization working for the validity of Black life and also working to rebuild the Black liberation movement. Black Lives Matter broadens the conversation and highlight the incidents around state violence to include the ways in which Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the state. This referring to the ways in which Black lives are deprived of basic human rights and dignity. According to the article The Murder of Walter Scott, which talks about race and class, “African Americans are less than 13% of the U.S. population yet they are nearly 50% of those killed by the police. North Charleston has a population of 104,000, 47% Black and the police force is 80% white (Miah, 2015)”.

Social movements are vital to the establishment of our societies, and they way we are governed. Social movements help the less privileged band together to create a stronger voice among a sea of political correctness and unlawfully rule that the public supposedly have to abide by without question. Movements create this new form of platform that, if done successfully, are able to create a worldwide frenzy where people from across all walks of life, including politicians, academics, the less fortunate, the homeless, doctors, etc, are able to come together to create change, or to start to create change on a matter that is close to their hearts. One of these matters that has come up in recent years that has been an ongoing battle for centuries upon centuries is Black Lives Matter (Although named various things throughout time such as black civil rights). Black Lives Matter is a movement that started back in 2012 after George Zimmerman was acquitted for his crime against a 17 year old boy named Trayvon Martin, and Trayvon was then put on trial for his own murder (Garza, A. 2014, p. 1.). This crime was just the tipping point for three women who wanted to see a change in the way black lives were/are treated. Black Lives Matter is one of the most important socio-political movements of our time, and this is why it is an important movement to connect with and understand. Throughout, I will be going through the strategies and the tactics Black Lives Matter advocates and cofounders have

The widely popular and controversial Black Lives Matter Movement not only draws attention to police brutality against black bodies, it also expose institutional racism seen within the public school system. Therefore, this movement becomes a valuable opportunity for both teachers and students to discuss race relations in classroom. So, how can classrooms benefit from and contribute to this movement? Studies show that if classrooms actively engage in relevant social issues teachers can improve the quality of instruction and actually maximizes students’ learning experience (Perlstein, 2002). A successful example of a revolution beginning in the classroom happened at the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School (OCS) established in 1971 (formerly

After what we heard about the brutality of police officers to the African-American community, Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement started by there strong women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. The movement first started in 2013, when a police officer brutally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old student in Florida. BLM movement was first started on the social network website Twitter by the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. I heard the whole keynote that was presented by Bobby Vaughn. Actually his last statement had an effect on me “All lives matter, black lives matter, LGBTQ lives matter, muslims lives matter.” It made me realize that it is not only my life or my family’s lives, but also every human being. We need to be treated equally

In this day and age America faces many problems that have become mainstream topics for debates and have momentously affected social acceptance of racial differences. These topics relate to the prompt: Does peaceful resistance to laws negatively or positively impact a free society? This question is considered quite often in these times due to the many different protests occurring in this nation. These protests cause turmoil in politics, religion, and personal opinions. These problems are beneficial because they help people think outside the box and assist the people of our nation to maintain democracy and freedom of speech.

Black lives matter is a movement that started after Trayvon Martin was murdered. George Zimmerman was the man who shot Trayvon, and George was found innocent. The movement sparked from this event and continued to grow as more and more events like the Trayvon Martin killing began to surface. The purpose of this movement is to end police brutality and racism against black men and women (Black Lives Matter, 2016). Police brutality is a major issue in the United States. Over the last few years, the media has brought more attention to this brutality than ever before. Many races believe that they are being targeted by police more often than others particularly black men. The media has brought so much attention to these crimes that people have formed organizations like Black lives matter, and people have started protesting after the events. Many people believe that all cops are racist, there are no good cops anymore, but that is simply not true. Police have a very hard job to do, and sometimes a few bad seeds can give an entire organization a bad reputation. Because of these peoples beliefs, many protests have occurred. Several of these protest have turned violent and became riots. These riots are hurting the communities physically and financially. During these riots, states bring in more police so that they can protect their citizens, but because people are so upset over this more innocent people are being killed. It doesn’t matter if a person is black, white, hispanic or asian,

The current political climate in America over the death of unarmed black men has led to our generation newest current civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter. The purpose of Black Lives Matter is “to build local power and to intervene when violence was inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes...and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive”(Black Lives Matter). The Black Lives Matter movement seeks to achieve a society where African Americans don’t have to fear racial profiling, fear being killed by police officers, or to judge by the color skin and not by their character. This movement came after the death of Trayvon Martin

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” African Americans behavior is affecting the race as a whole. The black lives matter movement was designed to inform others we know our right. As African American female I agree with the protest but think there’s somethings as African Americans we should consider. African Americans should consider our constitutional rights, crime of our race, and the effect it has in the black community.

The Black Lives Matter movement is a rally dedicated to “Black Lives”, minorities, who are not treated equally by their community with the intent of causing change in order to have equal justice and opportunities. This movement revolves around the idea of laboratories of democracy because as a community they seek out the injustice and put into question the relation with the issue; thus, allowing the people to support their ideas and convince others that racial injustice exists. Similarly, as a community they are able to build upon an overall understanding on the inequality which prepare the people to question the idea of democracy they have lived by. An excerpt from The Huffington Post inquires the equality demonstrated in the judicial court,

Black Lives Matter has been a movement for almost four years now. Recently All Lives Matter became relevant. People who believe in All Lives Matter felt “left out” when it came to Black Lives Matter protest. They felt threaten at the fact that they might be forgotten about or that they may gain more ‘power’ than them. In Black Lives Matter they are bringing attention to how anti-black racist people act toward them.

Since the two police involved shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota, the people involved in the Black Lives Matter Movement brought posters, candles, and instruments to demonstrate that black lives do matter on July 8th and 9th. The largest protest occurred in Atlanta, which had over thousands of men, women, and children where they blocked traffic. Also, outside of the white house in D.C, hundreds of people were protesting, yelling things like “No Justice, no peace,” and “Black Lives Matter.”

As a young white male in this country, I may not have the first-hand experience to support Black Lives Matter, but I can recognize a problem when I see one. Our country has a problem. I believe that the Black Lives Matter movement is both important and necessary for our country. The movement is not racist nor is it a threat to other races. There is no need to use the All Lives Matter to point out that each and every person in America are equal. This should already be known by the population, but it is not followed. Black Lives Matter is a necessary movement for the full equality of persons of color because the black population today is being discriminated against.

“Beneath armor of skin and bone and mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.”

The proliferation of protests and riots began in 2013 after the Trayvon Martin trial. The acquittal of George Zimmerman is what some say started the Black Lives Matter movement. I believe, however, that this case was simply adding to the suffering similar communities see almost every day. African-Americans have been dealing with unfair treatment for years before the Trayvon Martin trial. In the original case of Rodney King, video evidence was present of King’s ruthless, dehumanizing beating and the partial jury managed to use it against him by making the claim that he charged at police officers. Since Abraham Lincoln’s mobilization for the 13th amendment, the viewpoint of the majority of the population on “Black Lives” has been constantly evolving,

The Black Lives Matter movement is very inconvenient because most blacks just want to steal the rights from white people, and make the whites work while the blacks are in control of their land and salary so that they can be reimbursed for segregation that ended in 1964. We, as Americans, need to redefine how any race can be in more power than any other we all should have the basic rights to eat sleep, and breathe no more no less we should be equal not have one race with more rights. For example, According to, New York Daily News a heavily armed ex convict got in a shootout with the police and fatally shot a sergeant in cold blood from 2 feet. The fact is cops are murdered in cold blood every day and this needs to be stopped. An incident involving