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I used this source to not only support my stance on the Black Lives Matter movement, but I find this image of Leshia Evans to be extremely powerful.

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Calm at the center of the storm. The woman peacefully facing off against policemen at a Saturday, July 9, Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana - as seen in a now-viral, instantly iconic photo - has been identified as 28-year-old Ieshia Evans.

Although it was a peaceful demonstration - held in the wake of the death of Alton Sterling, who was shot and killed by police on July 5 - many protesters, including Evans, were detained by policemen. She was photographed (by Reuters' Jonathan Bachman) calmly standing in front of two officers clad in riot gear who appeared to be charging at her.

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New York Daily News ' senior justice reporter, Shaun King, shared the pic on Facebook (which was liked more than 3,300 times) and asked readers to help him figure out who the woman in the "powerful photo" is. Several proud family members and friends were quick to let King know that it was Evans.

"To see all of the comments under this post shows me that my cousin did not make a mistake by going out there and standing up for her rights and what she believes in," Nikka Thomas wrote. "I'm proud to call you my family Ieshia."

Her self-identified longtime friend R. Alex Haynes also chimed in. "This is my best friend that I have known since we were 8 (20 years now)," Evans' pal shared. "Her name is Ieshia and she has a 5 year old son. She went to Baton Rouge because she wanted to look her son in the eyes to tell him she fought for his freedom and rights. They haven't released her as of yet but she's fine. And yes, she is everything you see in this photo + so much more."

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Haynes and his wife, Natasha, told The Washington Post that although Evans lives in Pennsylvania, she attended the protest down South for her son, who she "wants a better future for."

"She was overcome by emotions while she was watching the protest," the statement read. "The officers wanted to push the protesters and viewers further back and she found that unjust - given that it was a peaceful protest."

According to The Daily Mail, Evans - who works as licensed practical nurse - spent 24 hours in jail after she was arrested by law enforcement. Haynes told The Washington Post that she was released from jail on Sunday night. The Advocate reports that more than 100 people were arrested at the protest.

Bachman opened up to BuzzFeed about taking the photo, which has already been compared by social media users to other iconic images such as the girl crying over her dead friend at Kent State protest and John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting his father's casket.

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"That was the first image I transferred [to Reuters] because I knew it was going to be an important photo," Bachman told the site. "You can take images of plenty of people getting arrested, but I think this one speaks more to the movement and what the demonstrators are trying to accomplish here in Baton Rouge."

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This is America, a music video inspired by police brutality and injustices towards minorities.

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Black lives matter is a civil rights group that exemplifies what it means to be American; to not only speak out on your oppression, but to fight for your freedoms as well. This group fights for the freedoms, equality, and individualisms of black Americans in a time where it seems as if their trials are being overlooked.

Before there was black lives matter, there were several monumental civil rights activist groups and movements that communicated a very similar message - major movements such as the civil rights movement, a movement from 1955-1968 that fought to end segregation in America, and The black panther party from 1966 until 1982 that originally patrolled  African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality, but later on fought to free African Americans from all of their injustices. These movements were put in place in a time when African Americans and other minority groups were not equal to their white counterparts, and these movements fought for justice, and for African Americans to be treated as humans, rather than lesser than. These movements have helped African Americans tremendously in the move towards equal rights, allowing such feats as the civil rights act, a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. And brown vs. the board of education, a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

The Black lives matter movement was founded by militant feminists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opel Tometi in 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted of shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black teenager who had been shot for seemingly no reason.  The movement later became widespread among the African American community and allies, especially as police brutality has become more publicized in the media towards the African American community.

Shortly after the Black lives matter movement began, there were various reactions - some good some bad. Because the movement brought to light the abuse of power by policemen towards minorities, it was petitioned for police officers to be required to wear body cams, not only to gain proof of incident, but to prevent incident. There were many adverse incidents, such as other groups being formed in opposition of black lives matter, calling them a hate group. Such opposing groups were “All lives matter”, “Blue lives matter”, And a powerful comeback of neo-Nazis, strongly detesting the black lives matter group. Black lives matter has influenced many minorities, including taking a knee during the national anthem and being more outspoken on racial injustice.

Black lives matter exemplifies what it means to be American; to not only speak out on your oppression, but to fight for your freedoms as well. This group fights for the freedoms, equality, and individualisms of black Americans in a time where it seems as if their trials are being overlooked. This group has given minorities a voice in a country that puts on a face of equality but will never truly be equal; to be American is to strive for greatness - to never be content with who you are and what you have, but to always fight for more. Not just for yourself, but for your neighbor.

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I used this source to educate myself on the origins of the Black Panther party, and to also learn of the impact that it left both short term and long term within America.

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Original name:

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

What was the Black Panther Party?

Who started the Black Panther Party?

Why is the Black Panther Party important?

Who were notable members of the Black Panther Party?

What was the FBI's response to the Black Panther Party?

Black Panther Party, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. The Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group that called for the arming of all African Americans, the exemption of African Americans from the draft and from all sanctions of so-called white America, the release of all African Americans from jail, and the payment of compensation to African Americans for centuries of exploitation by white Americans. At its peak in the late 1960s, Panther membership exceeded 2,000, and the organization operated chapters in several major American cities.

Origin and political program

Despite passage of the 1960s civil rights legislation that followed the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), African Americans living in cities throughout North America continued to suffer economic and social inequality. Poverty and reduced public services characterized these urban centres, where residents were subject to poor living conditions, joblessness, chronic health problems, violence, and limited means to change their circumstances. Such conditions contributed to urban uprisings in the 1960s (such as those in the Watts district of Los Angeles in 1965, among others) and to the increased use of police violence as a measure to impose order on cities throughout North America.

It was in this context, and in the wake of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, that Merritt Junior College students Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense on October 15, 1966, in West Oakland (officially "Western Oakland," a district of the city of Oakland), California. Shortening its name to the Black Panther Party, the organization immediately sought to set itself apart from African American cultural nationalist organizations, such as the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the Nation of Islam, to which it was commonly compared. Although the groups shared certain philosophical positions and tactical features, the Black Panther Party and cultural nationalists differed on a number of basic points. For instance, whereas African American cultural nationalists generally regarded all white people as oppressors, the Black Panther Party distinguished between racist and nonracist whites and allied themselves with progressive members of the latter group. Also, whereas cultural nationalists generally viewed all African Americans as oppressed, the Black Panther Party believed that African American capitalists and elites could and typically did exploit and oppress others, particularly the African American working class. Perhaps most importantly, whereas cultural nationalists placed considerable emphasis on symbolic systems, such as language and imagery, as the means to liberate African Americans, the Black Panther Party believed that such systems, though important, are ineffective in bringing about liberation. It considered symbols as woefully inadequate to ameliorate the unjust material conditions, such as joblessness, created by capitalism.

From the outset, the Black Panther Party outlined a Ten Point Program, not unlike those of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Nation of Islam, to initiate national African American community survival projects and to forge alliances with progressive white radicals and other organizations of people of colour. A number of positions outlined in the Ten Point Program address a principle stance of the Black Panther Party: economic exploitation is at the root of all oppression in the United States and abroad, and the abolition of capitalism is a precondition of social justice. In the 1960s this socialist economic outlook, informed by a Marxist political philosophy, resonated with other social movements in the United States and in other parts of the world. Therefore, even as the Black Panther Party found allies both within and beyond the borders of North America, the organization also found itself squarely in the crosshairs of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its counterintelligence program, COINTELPRO. In fact, in 1969 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover considered the Black Panther Party the greatest threat to national security.

Impact and repression

The Black Panther Party came into the national spotlight in May 1967 when a small group of its members, led by its chair, Seale, marched fully armed into the California state legislature in Sacramento. Emboldened by the view that African Americans had a constitutional right to bear arms (based on the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution), the Black Panther Party marched on the body as a protest against the pending Mulford Act. The Black Panther Party viewed the legislation, a gun control bill, as a political maneuver to thwart the organization's effort to combat police brutality in the Oakland community. The images of gun-toting Black Panthers entering the Capitol were supplemented, later that year, with news of Newton's arrest after a shoot-out with police in which an officer was killed. With this newfound publicity, the Black Panther Party grew from an Oakland-based organization into an international one with chapters in 48 states in North America and support groups in Japan, China, France, England, Germany, Sweden, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uruguay, and elsewhere.

In addition to challenging police brutality, the Black Panther Party launched more than 35 Survival Programs and provided community help, such as education, tuberculosis testing, legal aid, transportation assistance, ambulance service, and the manufacture and distribution of free shoes to poor people. Of particular note was the Free Breakfast for Children Program (begun in January 1969) that spread to every major American city with a Black Panther Party chapter. The federal government had introduced a similar pilot program in 1966 but, arguably in response to the Panthers' initiative, extended the program and then made it permanent in 1975-undoubtedly to the chagrin of Hoover.

Notwithstanding the social services the Black Panther Party provided, the FBI declared the group a communist organization and an enemy of the U.S. government. Hoover had pledged that 1969 would be the last year of the Black Panther Party and devoted the resources of the FBI, through COINTELPRO, toward that end. In a protracted program against the Black Panther Party, COINTELPRO used agent provocateurs, sabotage, misinformation, and lethal force to eviscerate the national organization. The FBI's campaign culminated in December 1969 with a five-hour police shoot-out at the Southern California headquarters of the Black Panther Party and an Illinois state police raid in which Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was killed. The measures employed by the FBI were so extreme that, years later when they were revealed, the director of the agency publicly apologized for "wrongful uses of power."

In the early 1970s radical scholar and activist Angela Davis became widely associated with the Black Panthers, though it seems likely that she never actually became a standing member of the party. Davis did, however, have strong connections with the party and taught political education classes for it. She initially gained notoriety in 1970 when then governor of California Ronald Reagan led the Board of Regents in refusing to renew Davis's appointment as lecturer in philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, because of her politics and her association with communists. At about the same time, Davis became involved in the case of three African American inmates at Soledad Prison who had been accused of murdering a guard. She became deeply involved with one of the inmates, George Jackson, whose younger brother's attempt on August 7, 1970, to win Jackson's release by taking hostages in the Marin county courthouse went violently awry. Four deaths resulted, and when at least one of the guns proved to be registered to Davis, she fled charges of conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder, going underground and entering the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list before being captured some eight weeks later after becoming a cause célèbre for the radical Left. Ultimately she was acquitted of all the charges against her by an all-white jury.

From the mid-1970s through the '80s, the activities of the Black Panther Party all but ceased. Although COINTELPRO contributed to its demise, the dissolution of the party's leadership also contributed to the downfall of the organization. Kathleen Cleaver earned a law degree and took an appointment as a professor. After returning from exile in Cuba, Newton was killed in a drug dispute in August 1989, perishing in an alley in West Oakland, not far from where he and Seale had founded the first Black Panther Party chapter. Eldridge Cleaver designed clothes in the 1970s and '80s before joining the anticommunist Unification Church en route to becoming a born-again Christian and a registered member of the Republican Party.

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This week, the singing group The Tenors suspended a member who added the words "all lives matter" to Canada's national anthem at Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.

As the debate around race and law enforcement has grown - especially since the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five police officers in Dallas - there remains considerable debate and confusion surrounding the phrase "All Lives Matter," which appeared often on social media before becoming part of a major sporting event.

How has a phrase that seems to state a non-controversial idea - all life is important - turned into a source of contention? It's because the phrase doesn't exist in a vacuum.

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What is "All Lives Matter"?
The "Black Lives Matter" movement was first created by Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors in 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted of shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. But as BLM began gaining widespread attention, people started using #AllLivesMatter in response to the movement.

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What's wrong with saying "All Lives Matter"?
One of the largest misconceptions surrounding the BLM movement is that its supporters believe that only black lives are important. Members of the movement say that is not the case.

When the phrase "All Lives Matter" is used in response to the BLM movement, it essentially ignores the systemic racism that black people face, according to Ashton P. Woods, a community activist and Black Lives Matter Houston organizer.

"It started popping up when people who decided that in their infinite white privilege, 'What about me? I matter too,'" Woods told TheWrap. "These people have no idea what the plight is of a black person."

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Society already values white lives. And as UC Berkley's Judith Butler explains, universalizing the issue into "All Lives Matter" fails to acknowledge that society doesn't consider black lives to fall under the same umbrella as "all lives" - which often gets translated into just "white lives."

Supporters of "All Lives Matter" say they use the phrase because they want to express that not just black lives are important.

#AllLivesMatter in a world of inequality As soon as we see everybody as equals no matter race,gender the the world would be a better place

- Justin Hardy (@FreakMagic2) July 8, 2016

@CBCNews Tho I understand BLM movement, one life is not more important than another. #AllLivesMatter

- Rachel Davis (@Anny007) July 4, 2016

But BLM supporters stress that the movement isn't about believing no other races matter. Instead, the movement seeks to highlight and change how racism disproportionately affects the black community, in terms of police brutality, job security, socioeconomic status, educational opportunities, and more.

"When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're talking about dismantling the system that has existed for over 400 years and making sure that we build our own table," Woods said. "We can't build our own table and supply our own needs and demands without making sure the system that is preventing us from doing it is dismantled."

"Across the board, when you look at how we're treated holistically, you'll see that many of these issues are not indicative of the people who say 'All Lives Matter' because they don't have to worry about that," Woods added. "Nobody knows what it's like to be black except for a black person, and that's culturally and ethnically speaking, because 'blackness' is not a monolithic thing."

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I still don't understand.
Critics of "All Lives Matter" say the phrase takes away from the root of the problem that the Black Lives Matter movement is trying to change and instead supports the system of power already in place.

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Police Shoot Unarmed Black Man With Hands Up [CAUGHT ON TAPE]

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Police brutality against minorities is a driving force for the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Police brutality in the US - in 90 seconds