African American/Black History and Experience: #BlackLivesMatter

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From the Black Lives Matter website:

"The Black Lives Matter Global Network is a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes."

For more, visit Black Lives Matter

NOTE: Some of the resources on this page were published before the anti-racist protests which began last spring. For additional, and current resources, go to Police Brutality Against African Americans and Anti-Racist Protest

Read highlights from the interview: One Scholar on the Future of Black Lives Matter

Articles of interest

‘The Uprising’: Watch How Seattle’s Protests Have Evolved
How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next
A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Explains Why This Time Is Different
A Timeline of U.S. Police Protests
Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings
Collection of articles from the New York Times
Articles on Black Lives Matter
Collection of articles from The Conversation. Many cover BLM in other countries.
Don't Understand the Protests? What You're Seeing Is People Pushed to the Edge
Opinion piece by NBA legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar
What It's Like to Be Black on Campus: Isolated, Exhausted, Calling for Change
Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter
(Note: This article has a definite point of view but raises some interesting questions and challenges.)
Five Years After Michael Brown Shooting, Slow Signs of Progress

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