Essays on Black Lives Matter

In Florida of July 2013, a man by the name of George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin; which began the activist movement, Black Lives Matter, later beginning the hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter). Following Martin’s death, Black Lives Matter…

Our criminal justice system in America has offered the suggestion that being black is a crime. Each case that involved a police officer killing an unarmed black person has left society with an empty void every time the defender was determined not guilty. This social…

Black Lives Matter, also known as BLM, is an international activist movement, originating in the African American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. There have been a lot of protests, riots, and fights due to police officers not being convicted…

Protest movements have sprung difficult conversations in order to create social change, and the impact social media has made on these topics has allowed conversations to be talked about in new ways. Since the shooting and killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin by police officer…

Race is one of the correlates of crime receiving attention in academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern. Roughly eight-in-ten blacks with at least some college experience (81%) say they’ve experienced racial discrimination, at least from time to time, including 17% who say…

For many, the idea of studying black political thought as its own subject is redundant and unnecessary, as it should be encompassed somewhere in the grand scheme of all history in the United States. There is no need, some argue, to learn the nuances of…

Photos have the ability and power to change the world, they play a significant part in the wokeness of the people. In the photo, Colin Kaepernick and two other players are kneeling during the anthem, the simple act that made him lose everything and become…

Protests in opposition to police brutality and civil injustices date back to the late 1960s and carry over into the early 1970s. From these protests the Black Power Movement was born, which operated in an attempt to counteract the effects of white hegemony, otherwise known…

Black lives matter is a social media movement that went of the Ferguson, Gardner cases etc. Also very rapidly it was to show as a opposition to the police and cops. Somehow when saying black lives matter it was like saying all life matter don’t…

There are people in America that makes us wonder why there is a world to begin with. There are people who represent the greater good of the world, and there are others who are unfortunately not for the greater good of the world. We have…