Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralizedpolitical and social movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people.While there are specific organizations like the Black Lives Matter Global Network that label themselves simply as "Black Lives Matter", the Black Lives Matter movement comprises a broad array of people and organizations. The slogan "Black Lives Matter" itself remains untrademarked by any group.The broader movement and its related organizations typically advocate against police violence towards black people as well as for various other policy changes considered to be related to black liberation. (Wikipedia)
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. (https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/)
Black Lives Matter: NewsweekThe most recent news of Black Lives Matter (BLM), the civil, non-violent movement originally started to protest police brutality. The movement began online in 2013 with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black teenager in Miami, Florida. Since then, the BLM movement has become one of the leading organizations against police brutality and racism in the United States.
Fatal Encounters - visualization mapA step toward creating an impartial, comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with police. Provides searchable datasets.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)Founded in 1909 in response to the ongoing violence against Black people around the country, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is the largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation.
