• Where does the Black church fit in today's Black Lives Matter movement?

    Where does the Black church fit in today's Black Lives Matter movement?

    Mar 30, 2021 08:09 PM EDT

    ... more churchgoers leaving the institution because of its refusal to meet the needs of all the intersections of Black people. Flunder said she believes the Black church has work to do on its “fragile patriarchy” to be relevant to the social justice movements. She explained that Black men have been ...

  • Black Lives Matter backs Amazon union push in Alabama

    Black Lives Matter backs Amazon union push in Alabama

    Mar 13, 2021 12:32 AM EDT

    ... profile supporter of the union push, which is the biggest in Amazon's nearly 30-year history. Most of the workers in the warehouse are Black, according to union organizers, and the backing from Black Lives Matter could help further legitimize the cause. Besides higher pay, organizers are also asking ...

  • Black Lives Matter launches fund as wait for federal COVID-19 relief continues

    Black Lives Matter launches fund as wait for federal COVID-19 relief continues

    Feb 25, 2021 07:09 PM EDT

    ... Fund is part of the foundation’s 2021 focus on economic justice, particularly as it relates to the ongoing socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 on Black communities. On Tuesday, the BLM foundation revealed that it had raised $90 million last year, much of it after the May 2020 death of ...

  • Proud Boys leader arrested, accused of burning church's Black Lives Matter banner

    Proud Boys leader arrested, accused of burning church's Black Lives Matter banner

    Jan 05, 2021 01:35 AM EDT

    ... Black Lives Matter Plaza, an area near the White House. By nightfall, vandals tore down a Black Lives Matter banner and sign from two historic Black churches in downtown Washington and set the banner ablaze. Video posted online showed people pouring an accelerant on a Black Lives Matter banner near ...

  • WATCH: Celebrations on Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. after Biden declared winner

    WATCH: Celebrations on Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. after Biden declared winner

    Nov 07, 2020 05:40 PM EDT

    ... broke out Saturday. People ran out of their buildings, banging on pots. They danced and high-fived with strangers amid honking horns. People streamed into Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House, waving sings and taking cellphone pictures. In Lansing, Michigan, Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter demonstrators ...

  • Indigenous peoples echo Black Lives Matter’s call for justice

    Indigenous peoples echo Black Lives Matter’s call for justice

    Oct 12, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

    This year, U.S. protests over police brutality and violence against Black Americans have led to a prominent national conversation on racism. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia and New Zealand have leveraged the momentum both to show solidarity and to bring attention to similar issues in their own countries. Amna Nawaz reports on a global effort...

  • WATCH: D.C. mayor speaks at the Democratic National Convention from Black Lives Matter Plaza

    WATCH: D.C. mayor speaks at the Democratic National Convention from Black Lives Matter Plaza

    Aug 18, 2020 01:48 AM EDT

    Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is harshly criticizing President Donald Trump before introducing the family of George Floyd at the Democratic National Convention's opening night. Watch Bowser’s remarks in the player above. Standing on an outlook above Black Lives Matter Plaza, Bowser said it was time to ...

  • Activist's arrest in Portland galvanizes Black Lives Matter

    Activist's arrest in Portland galvanizes Black Lives Matter

    Aug 11, 2020 06:06 PM EDT

    ... of control.” He urged Democratic Gov. Kate Brown to bring in the Oregon National Guard. Civil rights groups in Portland and members of the international Black Lives Matter organization, who traveled to Portland, decried Hester’s arrest and said the city was at the center of the racial justice protest ...

  • How the Black Lives Matter generation remembers John Lewis

    How the Black Lives Matter generation remembers John Lewis

    Jul 19, 2020 07:31 PM EDT

    ... and speaking to me and saying how proud he was, looking at the things that we had done in Florida.” PATRISSE CULLORS, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and its global network of chapters: “The first time I was introduced to Congressman Lewis was through (the 1990 PBS docuseries) ‘Eyes ...

  • Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter

    Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter

    Jul 05, 2020 05:43 PM EDT

    ... the California Facebook group posted a widely debunked flyer that says “White men, women and children, you are the enemy,” which was falsely attributed to Black Lives Matter. Another falsely claimed that a Black man was brandishing a gun outside the St. Louis mansion where a white couple confronted protesters ...