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 […]
Inside the grassroots effort to track police violence in the U.S. | The Daily Dot
By Deron Dalton In the era of Big Data and online advertising, when virtually every aspect of our lives is recorded, one key bit of data has been conspicuously absent: The number of Americans killed by police. Until now. After former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in August 2014, government agencies, like the FBI, CDC and Bureau […]