#B-L-M: History+Moxie= Movement
https://moxietalk.com/black-lives-matters/
Up until the last few weeks, Black Lives Matter seemed to be a movement happening somewhere else for me.
Black Lives Matter happened in Ferguson, Mo. and Baltimore and Louisiana and Chicago and New York and Los Angeles. It wasn’t until recent weeks that the movement engulfed my hometown of Louisville, Ky.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., my own community awakened to its own homegrown case of a Black woman losing her life at the hands of police officers.
The case of Breonna Taylor, who was gunned down in her own apartment during a botched police raid back in March, suddenly was thrust into the middle of a bright international spotlight.
Protesters took to the streets here in Louisville, chanting Taylor’s name, “No justice, no peace”, and “Black Lives Matter.” That scene was echoed not just throughout Jefferson Square in downtown Louisville, but across the city, across the commonwealth and around the world! Not to mention, Breonna would have turned 27 on Friday, June 5th, 2020. Simply a life cut too short.
