The women of Black Lives Matter outline their path forward | The Daily Dot
By Deron Dalton Black Lives Matter changed the national conversation on race. An organizational and international network, it has ballooned into 31 chapters in three countries. Now comes the hard part. It all started back in July 2013, when three Black women and community organizers—Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi—founded #BlackLivesMatter and the online campaign’s social platforms following the […]
For Tamir Rice’s family, the fight for justice is far from over | The Daily Dot
By Deron Dalton The family of Tamir Rice is not giving up. Last month, a grand jury issued no indictment in the death of Rice, a 12-year-old who was shot by a Cleveland, Ohio, police officer in November 2014. Rice was playing in a neighborhood park with a toy handgun that mimicked the look of a real firearm when […]
How 4 Black Lives Matter activists handle queerness and trans issues | The Daily Dot
By Deron Dalton Black Lives Matter is about far more than just police violence. The network—a growing international organization with 26 local chapters in three countries—faces many misconceptions, co-optation, racist trolls, counter-narrative arguments—and, sometimes, its own communities. And yet, it upholds a mission to be explicitly intersectional, leading to a movement that mobilizes for all black lives and advocates for an array […]