Tag: Black Lives Matter
Movement for Black Lives Wants Communities to Reclaim Public Land
Children help put finishing touches on a mural at a lot at 75th and Macarthur Boulevard in Oakland in effort for communities to reclaim...
Oakland High Schoolers Join Kaepernick in National Anthem Protest
As dozens of athletes across the country are joining 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in his national anthem protest, one group of young protestors has...
Oakland City Council to Vote on Police Commission Tuesday, July 26
Nearly 100 people showed up to speak at Tuesday’s city council meeting in support of a strong, independent police oversight commission in Oakland, which...
Movement for Black Lives Notches Major Win in Chicago Race
By Kim Bellware, Huffington Post and other sources
Chicago’s States Attorney Anita Alvarez was ousted in the Democratic primary Tuesday night by challenger Kim Foxx...
Op-Ed: Families of Police Victims Are Energizing the Movement
By Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby’ Johnson,
On Jan. 1, 2009 at 2:11 a.m. on the Fruitvale Bart Station platform, my life was drastically changed forever. Bart...
United Nations Working Group Says U.S. Should Consider Reparations
By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press
The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly...
Justice Department to Investigate San Francisco Police Department
By Soumya Karlamangle, The LA Times and other sources
The U.S. Department of Justice is beginning a review of the San Francisco Police Department, which...
‘Poetry for the People’ Raises Funds for Police Commission Ballot
The Coalition for Police Accountability (CPA), a group of community organizations whose mission is to place a Police Commission on the November 2016 ballot,...
‘Failure to Supervise’ Goes All the Way to the Top
By Erica Garner, Huffington Post
My father, Eric Garner, was killed by New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo a year and a half ago,...
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder to Attend State of the Union
By Lauren Burke, NBC News
Alicia Garza, one of the three female founders of Black Lives Matter, will be the guest of Rep. Barbara Lee...
