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Apparently, Black Lives Matter groups have even more to be concerned about when it comes to police authorties. The Guardian reports that New York Police Department officers went undercover to infiltrate small groups of Black Lives Matter activists. The department was then able to gain access to private text messages and offer the locations of […]

The history of racism in golf clubs is a long and rich one – just watch The Legend of Bagger Vance to get an idea of how unwelcome people of color were. Many of the sports founding fathers were outwardly racist (and sexist) and the culture surrounding it didn’t transform for quite a while. So it must […]

The Fraternal Order of Police is the largest police union in the United States. As a result, when its president, Chuck Canterbury, writes an open letter to one of the biggest retailers in the world, it’s going to have results. Knowing this, Canterbury wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, urging him to remove any trace […]

Black Lives Matter just made it that much harder for you not to support Black businesses this holiday season. According to the Huffington Post Black Voices, BLM has launched a website that compiles the locations of Black businesses across the United States. BLM believes that backing Black business is a key component of making our voices heard […]

By: Chanda Hsu Prescod-Weinstein Someone was selling cigarettes illegally. The State didn’t need the money, but it did want to be in control of how everyday citizens made money. When the authorities showed up, the enforcers could have let the sale of contraband cigarettes go, but they didn’t. Instead, they used force and the cigarette […]

Leaders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network have released an official statement following the results of the election, exclusively through Mic. The statement calls on how the organization’s mandate and mission has not changed because of President-elect Trump’s victory, which it calls “the election of a white supremacist to the highest office in American government.”

Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza – who we recently interviewed – are clearly worth honoring for all of their work for social justice and the movement for black lives. Which is why Glamour has featured them on its list of 2016 Women of the Year.

Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream company that’s brought joy and sugar to millions of people, has come out to support the Black Lives Matter movement in an effort to no longer be complicit. 

By Liz Adetiba and Jordie Davies   The Oakland-based organizer and activist Alicia Garza, who is also the originator of the Black Lives Matter rallying cry and one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter Network, thinks Black people have a lot to talk about outside of police violence. In this interview, we discussed with […]

The University of Vermont earned praise from Black Lives Matter supporters – and criticism from its dissidents – after raising a BLM flag next to the U.S. and state flags. Many students were deeply affected and were left with pride for their school’s decision to support black lives. 

We recently had the pleasure of spending some time talking to Chicago MC, Jessica Disu aka FM Supreme, about her seat right at the intersection of hip-hop music and social activism. She also provided some gems about the significance of travel in self-improvement and the controversy surrounding her appearance on FOX News calling for the […]

According to new findings from Black Youth Project’s GenForward study, 66 percent of white people age 18-30 believe the rhetoric of the Movement for Black Lives encourages violence against police. Only 19 percent of Black respondents said the same. GenForward is a monthly survey of the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with […]