As a leader in the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in St. Louis after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, Cori Bush was used to showing up at protests and seeing police, often fully deck out in riot gear, already waiting for them. Those memories came back to her as she …
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Trojan Jamaica/BMG has partnered with Until the Ribbon Breaks for a remix of Toots and the Maytals‘ “Got to Be Tough,” donating all proceeds to Black Lives Matter. The title track to Toots Hibberts’ final studio album, the video features footage of protests and police brutality, including figures Rosa Parks, …
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For too long, Black people in America have been burdened with the unjust responsibility of keeping ourselves safe from police. We have been raised by elders and have been taught to pass along to future generations the understanding that every day, we must prepare how to navigate and even survive …
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AMC is set to develop a new drama series based on Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery’s bestselling nonfiction book about the Black Lives Matter movement,They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice, Deadline.com reports. The book, published in 2016 by Little, Brown & …
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