https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp en-us 2022-11-28 15:19:43 UTC 2022-12-02 16:39:20 UTC hello@padlet.com drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2400400730 Black Lives Matter began with a social media hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after George Zimmerman was charged not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin back in 2012. https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/BLM

]]> 2022-11-28 15:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2400400730 drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2400414698 It became nationally recognized for street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two more African Americans, Michael Brown, resulting in protests and unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, a city near St. Louis, and Eric Garner in New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

]]> 2022-11-28 15:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2400414698 drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406853288 Black Lives Matter, the civil-rights protest movement that rose to prominence after Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, expanded its reach onto the campaign trail and college campuses. The movement forced presidential candidates to reckon with a legacy of racism and police brutality. It inspired student protests and demands.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/black-lives-matter/421839/

]]> 2022-12-02 16:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406853288 drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406857845 The Black Lives Matter movement and protests of police violence played a major role in the 2016 election, according to new research led by faculty from Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts, Northwestern University, and George Mason University. https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/06/09/the-black-lives-matter-protests-motivated-voters-in-2016-will-they-do-the-same-in-2020/]]> 2022-12-02 16:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406857845 drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406860809 Black Lives Matter has fallen off the national media attention radar since November 8. Black activists and activists from other minorities were heavily represented in the spontaneous protests in the first few days after the election, were prominent in Inauguration Day protest rallies, played a role in the big Women’s March rallies the day after the Inauguration, and continue to play a role in the ongoing protests against the Trump administration’s policies.
https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoliticsjustice/2017/02/08/thoughts-about-black-lives-matter-in-2017/]]> 2022-12-02 16:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406860809 drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406863307 As the Black Lives Matter movement marked five years, another fatal shooting of unarmed Stephon Clark sparked more protests.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/black-history-month-black-lives-matter/]]> 2022-12-02 16:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406863307 drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406867868 Rapper 21 Savage was detained by the US immigration agency in February. BLM co-founder Cullors galvanized support from celebrities and human rights organizations, with a #Free21Savage campaign, leading to him being released on bond.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/black-history-month-black-lives-matter/


]]> 2022-12-02 16:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406867868 drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406870589 In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement shook the world, mass protests erupted in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 28, one of Chanelle Helm’s biggest worries was for the young people who took to the streets.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/12/31/2020-the-year-black-lives-matter-shook-the-world]]> 2022-12-02 16:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406870589 drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406873434 protesters took to the streets throughout the United States to protest police brutality in response to George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. These Black Lives Matter protests were some of the largest and most sustained in the country’s history.
https://www.wellesley.edu/news/2021/stories/node/190341]]> 2022-12-02 16:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406873434 drewjohnson787 https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406881546 Black Lives Matter was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in January for raising awareness and consciousness of racial injustice.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/10/black-lives-matter-tops-list-of-groups-that-black-americans-see-as-helping-them-most-in-recent-years/]]> 2022-12-02 16:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/drewjohnson787/9ebu7uu28qpgv6wp/wish/2406881546