By Dr. Melina Abdullah, Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots and Co-Founder of BLM Los Angeles On Tuesday, October 26, Black Lives Matter joined fellow civil rights leaders to engage with and discuss tangible policy proposals to transform current approaches to public safety with senior officials from the White House…

By Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter Co-Founder and Executive Director From the time historian Carter Woodson created Negro History Week in 1926 up through today’s celebration of Black History Month, the goal has always been to recognize Black Americans’ prolific contributions that had been ignored, dismissed or diminished in textbooks…

By: Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter Co-Founder and Executive Director The number seven holds power. Many of us have heard the adage that the cells of our body are renewed and replaced every seven years. The reality is a little more complex. Some of our cells are replaced rapidly, others…

In a time when we are opening our minds and our hearts to the solutions that will transform our communities, we must come together to learn what #DefundPolice really means and why this is an important step in defense of Black lives. Kailee Scales — Managing Director, Black Lives Matter…

Dé Bryant, Ph.D. — Professor and Director, Social Action Project, Indiana University South Bend. Member of Black Lives Matter-South Bend (dbryant@iusb.edu) “I’m too busy to look up!! Have you even been paying attention to what’s happening to us out there?!” My sister in the struggle asked this in response to…

We are saddened and enraged by the death of Erica Garner yesterday morning. Her father, Eric Garner, was murdered at the hands of the New York Police Department on July 17, 2014 as he cried out over and over “I can’t breathe.” Our hearts mourn for and with the Garner/Carr…

Written by chapter members of BLM — Louisville. Support their work by donating here now: http://blackliveslouisville.org/stand-up-sundays/donate/ On August 13, 2017, at 3pm, Black Lives Matter Louisville, community leaders and accomplices gathered to rally and march in solidarity with those impacted by the events that happened in Charlottesville, VA. The rally…

John Sloan, Co-Lead Organizer BLMDetroit @jsloan3 @DetroitBLM As a typical child of the Eighties, I remember growing up surrounded by “Americana”. I was regaled with stories of my grandfather and his brothers fighting valiantly in WWII. I proudly memorized the Pledge of Allegiance, and knew every verse of “America, The…