Search Results for: Movement for Black Lives

George Floyd and the Global Fight for Black Lives

May 26, 2021June 5, 2021 Mickell Carter Black Europe, black internationalism, blackness, police brutality, police violence

The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, acted as a catalyst for Black Lives Matter protests around the

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Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance

May 17, 2021June 5, 2021 Tiffany Florvil Black German, Germany, mourning

In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a

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Black Resistance from Augusta to BLM

May 11, 2021June 5, 2021 John Hayes and Nefertiti Robinson Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

When our work began in December 2018, we sought to confront misinformation and erasure surrounding the “riot” of May 11-12,

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The Connected Histories of #StopAAPIHate and #BlackLivesMatter

April 21, 2021April 20, 2021 Owen Walsh Afro-Asia, black lives matter, Racial Violence

The murder of six women of Asian descent and two other victims in Atlanta by a white male gunman precipitated

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Louise Thompson and the Black and White Film

April 15, 2021April 14, 2021 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Black women, race

In 1932, James Ford returned from the Soviet Union with a letter from the Russian film company Meschrabpom saying it

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