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Who would win in an all- out brawl: Justice League or the Avengers? | The Tylt
The original article with the poll was published on May 9, 2016. Here’s updated, republished version of the article and poll results from 2019.
How the Black Joy Project is helping activists deal | The Daily Dot
By Deron Dalton Black Lives Matter has pushed the national conversation on race—but the trauma and pain behind the fight against systemic racism can weigh heavily on black organizers and the communities they serve. This was the case for Kleaver Cruz, a 27-year-old writer and community organizer at Black Lives Matter: NYC. A few days after Thanksgiving, he […]
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 […]
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 […]
Remember the Black women who died from police brutality | MadameNoire
Rekia Boyd, 22, was shot in the back of her head when Dante Servin, an off-duty police officer, shot into a crowd five times on March 22, 2012 in Chicago. She died two days later. Servin claimed Boyd’s friend Antonio Cross pulled out an object from his pocket and pointed it at him. Servin thought […]
The Three Women Behind The Black Lives Matter Movement | MadameNoire
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi co-founded the Black Lives Matter Movement when George Zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. They created the hashtag, which spread like wildfire. “This isn’t the beginning of a movement, this is the continuation of a struggle that’s been happening for at least 400 years,” […]