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Black Lives Matter
[ blak lahyvz mat-er ]
noun
- a political and social movement originating among African Americans, emphasizing basic human rights and racial equality for Black people and campaigning against various forms of racism. : BLM, B.L.M.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Black Lives Matter1
Example Sentences
At a news conference with Black Lives Matter Grassroots members last month, Boyd’s family members decried the actions of police that November night.
Representatives of the Long Beach chapter of Black Lives Matter Grassroots did not immediately provide comment on the footage.
In 2015, too, the agency sent hundreds of federal officers into Baltimore to police Black Lives Matter demonstrators and, years later, arrested and threatened to criminally charge a Texas woman who criticized the overturning of Roe v.
Melina Abdullah, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles, said Monday that she plans to lead a protest outside the new district attorney’s inauguration alongside dozens of families whose relatives were killed by police in Los Angeles County.
“They’ve knelt since their freshman year, when the Black Lives Matter movement was going on, and, in this program, we raise critical thinkers to make decisions for what’s important to them,” Kohan said.
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