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Do police treat Black Lives Matter and ‘White Lives Matter’ differently?
by Sam Levin When Justice Medina left a Black Lives Matter protest in California last Wednesday, police followed him. At around 8pm, roughly a mile away from the protest in downtown Fresno, officers stopped the 20-year-old, who was in a … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Black Lives Matter, California, police, protest, race
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This 85-Year-Old Nun Just Spent Two Years In Prison For Protesting Nuclear Weapons
By Alice Ollstein Two white-haired nuns stepped forward and embraced each other tightly. One has been living in a convent in a quiet Philadephia suburb. The other has spent the last two years in federal prison, charged with sabotage, … Continue reading
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Tagged faith, Fort Knox of Uranium, nuclear weapons, protest, religion, Sister Megan Rice, social activism, Y-12
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Beyond Hashtag Activism
By David A. Graham If you’ve heard of Joseph Kent, you probably only learned his name in the last couple of days. Late Tuesday night, a CNN camera caught a spooky video of Kent being arrested in Baltimore: As Kent … Continue reading
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Tagged activisim, Baltimore, civil rights, Ferguson, protest, social activism
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Baltimore rioter turned himself in – but his family can’t afford a $500,000 bail sum
By Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Paul Lewis and Mae Ryan Allen Bullock was charged with eight criminal counts, including rioting and malicious destruction of property, after arriving at Baltimore’s juvenile justice centre with his stepfather, Maurice Hawkins, who said he … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Bullock, Baltimore, Freddie Gray murder, protest, race, United States, uprising
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A Ground-Level View of Baltimore’s Protests: Hope, Anger, and Beauty
Photos by Andrew Renneisen, text by Mitchell Grummon On April 12, Freddie Gray was arrested by Baltimore police. One hour later he was comatose. A week later he was dead, succumbing to spinal injuries inflicted while in … Continue reading
‘All night, all day, we will fight for Freddie Gray’
By Askia Muhammad, Nisa Islam Muhammad, Charles Robinson and Shawn Massie From Staten Island, to Ferguson, to Cleveland, to North Charleston, S.C., now to the city by the Bay, death after death of unarmed Black men by police has stunned … Continue reading
Nonviolence as Compliance
By Ta-Nehisi Coates Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but in the custody … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Freddie Gray, Freddie Gray murder, police abuse, protest, race
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The Powerful Scene On The Streets Of Baltimore Monday Night That No One Is Talking About
By Judd Legum Violent rioting erupted on the streets of Baltimore on Monday, the day that a 25-year-old man who was killed while in police custody, Freddie Gray, was laid to rest. Cars were burned, more than a dozen police … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Freddie Gray murder, police abuse, protest, social activism
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Pharoahe Monch – Stand Your Ground
This song is inspired by the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the murder of Trayvon Martin.
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Tagged hip-hop, Lee Stone, music, Pharoahe Monch, protest, protest song, Trayvon Martin
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