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... with joy and optimism and strength.” An ecstatic Whitney Lewis leaned halfway out a car window in a growing traffic jam of revelers waving a Black Lives Matter flag. “Justice was served,” the 32-year-old from Minneapolis said. “It means George Floyd can now rest.” Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell, who ...
... bravery. Jeffrey Brown: Until now, Day was herself best known as a singer. Her hit song "Rise Up" became a kind of anthem for the Black Lives Matter movement. She grew up in San Diego and attended its School of Creative and Performing Arts, a public arts magnet school, where ...
... a racist reaction to a problem that hasn't occurred in Florida. They saw it as an attempt to squash the voices of groups like Black Lives Matter. "Not only is this racist at its core, but it's also a reaction to what occurred over the summer after the ...
... filed Monday. The department has in the past declined to comment on pending court cases. The lawsuit details how, for one woman seeking to protect Black Lives Matter protesters from militarized agents, one night turned into a traumatic experience. On July 20, Kristiansen joined over 100 Wall of Moms protesters ...
... about smashing police cars, because that’s not going to bring my son back.” Protesters who gathered near the scene waved flags and signs reading “Black Lives Matter.” Others walked peacefully with their hands held up. On one street, someone wrote in multi-colored chalk: “Justice for Daunte Wright.” Katie ...
... on the street where protesters were met with tear gas the night before. One man yelled at the officers using a megaphone as others flew Black Lives Matter flags. About 20 businesses were broken into at the city’s Shingle Creek shopping center, Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John ...
... for their neighbors. Volunteers across the country who spent that past year delivering groceries to the elderly and immunocompromised, providing food and first-aid to Black Lives Matter protesters, or raising money for the nearly 10 million Americans behind on rent amid the pandemic say mutual aid has become a ...
... there's also that insider-outsider divide that you're either really inside America or you're cast as not belonging as an outsider. What Black Lives Matter did is it exposed the structural racism of the United States. The model minority myth that Asian-Americans are successful, the myth ...
... through traffic during the pandemic, and just under a third closed select streets to nearly all traffic. One prominent example is Washington, D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza, commissioned by Mayor Muriel Bowser along two blocks of 16th Street NW. This new pedestrian promenade has quickly become a landmark ...
... of democracy," Perry explained. MORE: Congress holds first hearing on Asian American violence in decades amid ‘crisis point’ Friday, Perry and district workers gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza to hang 51 American flags in support of the statehood movement. With a simple majority in the House and Senate, Congress ...
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