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- Not everyone was treated equally
- There had been many unresolved issues of race and equality
-Issue of democracy
- Threat of white supremacy and domestic terrorism

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- Alicia Garza had joined the National Domestic Workers Alliance creating a program focused on Black Domestic workers. She focused on campaigns against violence and racism towards African Americans
- D'Zhane Parker was a board member of BLMGNF
- Ayọ Tometi has love and passion for Black Communities, and she founded the BLMGNF
- Patrisse Cullors also founded the BLMGNF

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- Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an organization which higlights racism, discrimination, and racial innequality
- Black History Month which is also known as African American Month is a month focused on the contributions of African Americans in the US and those who are treated differently
-The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is a black nationalist anti-capitalist organization dedicated to continuing activist activities in the Black Lives Matter movement

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Some connections to back then and now was that not everyone was treated equally. Everyone had been looked at differently from many people. But now, Black Americans have a bit more freedom, but still feel targeted by White Americans because they got treated poorly compared to Whites, and couldn't do the same things that Whites could do. For example, blacks were separated from whites, and they couldn't live nearby to whites, and

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- Jim Crow Laws led to segregation in schools, trains, and other public places
- Landlords refused to rent homes in white areas to African Americans
- African Americans were hired only for low-paying jobs
- Nobody was equal and everyone was treated equally
- Segregation was the biggest issue during this time period

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Some connections from then and now for reformers was that all of these reformers wanted to abolish slavery at the time. Also, people all around the world would organize events and organizations for Blacks. Many people now and then wrote books, and made videos to show racial justice, and make it more clear.

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There used to be Black University to show Black Americans justice, and now there's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to show racial justice. In universities now, there is less discrimination for Blacks. Then and Now, there were plenty of organizations made for Black Americans justice.

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- Booker T. Washington spoke for many African Americans and wrote his own success story. He offered higher education to blacks and he urged them to learn trades and earn money
- Ida B. Wells is an African American journalist. She urged African Americans to protest Lychings. She spoke out despite threats to her life
- Du Bois was the director of the publicity and research director of publicity and research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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- African Americans now established their own companies, including insurance firms and banks.
- NAACP/National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an organization in the US formed in 1909. Worked to advance justice for African Americans
- Booker T. Washington built trade schools for African Americans with Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie
- Booker T. Washington wrote his success story