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Showing posts with label Black Lives Matter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Lives Matter. Show all posts
Saturday, June 04, 2022

Cicely Gay appointed New Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Chair

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Cicely Gay, an Atlanta activist has been appointed to straighten out the finances of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation C...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Pamela Moses' illegal voting registration case dismissed

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The Shelby County District Attorney's office has dropped its case against Pamela Moses, the Memphis woman who was sentenced to six ye...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Angela Davis calls recent attacks on Black Lives Matter predictable

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In a roundtable with members of the Black press Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors addressed the purchase a $6 million mansio...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Black Gun Owners Association statement on the killing of Amir Locke

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By George L. Cook III African American Reports. Amir Locke, a legal gun owner was killed when Minneapolis Police carried out a no-knoc...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Store owner who called police and lied on peaceful BLM protesters ordered to pay $4.5K

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A former ice cream shop owner accused of calling police on peaceful Black Lives Matters protesters was ordered Wednesday to pay them $500 ...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel peace prize

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The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize for the way its call for systemic change has spread arou...
Monday, October 19, 2020

African American Reports Interview with Jerri Haslem, the founder of the 8:46 Breathe Series Race

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Hi, this is George Cook of African American Reports. Please check out my interview with Jerri Haslem, the founder of the 8:46 Breathe Seri...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Lebron James: Back Lives Matter is not a movement...it's a lifestyle

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During his media press conference after the LA Lakers first scrimmage in the NBA bubble, Lebron James commented on the Black Lives Matter...
Monday, June 29, 2020

NBA plans to paint 'Black Lives Matter' on courts in Orlando

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The NBA and National Basketball Players Association are planning to paint "Black Lives Matter" on the court inside both sideline...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

A conversation with NJ Assemblyman Jamel Holley on police reform and social justice.

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The deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, & George Floyd have brought racism and police reform to the forefront. Many of us have ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Sen. Kamala Harris statement in three officers that killed Breonna Taylor

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Senator Kamala Harris took to Twitter to make the following statement about the three officers that murdered Breonna Taylor: It’s past ...
Saturday, June 06, 2020

George Floyd's brother to testify in front of House Judiciary Committee

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Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in Minneapolis police custody on May 25, will testify before ...

Jordan Brand and Michael Jordan Statement on $100 million Commitment to the Black Community

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Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand released the following statement on it's commitment to donate $100 million to organizations dedica...
Friday, June 05, 2020

Black NFL stars team up for powerful message to the league

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More than a dozen players, including Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes, Michael Thomas, Saquon Barkley,Deshaun Watson, Odell Beckham and Mar...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Rep. Al Green: Black lives don't matter as much as white lives

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Rep. Al Green (TX-09) took to the floor of the House of Representatives and made an impassioned speech in which he said that Black lives...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Sacramento Kings partner with Black Lives Matter

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On Wednesday, the Sacramento Kings announced a partnership with the Build. Black. coalition – a group of community leaders who have or...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

AMC Developing TV Series Based On Black Lives Matter Book

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AMC has put in development a drama based on Wesley Lowery’s bestselling nonfiction book They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Colin Kaepernick items to be part of Smithsonian's Black Lives Matter collection

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Items pertaining to Colin Kaepernick will be part of the Black Lives Matter collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Afric...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Black Lives Matter Wins 2017 Sydney Peace Prize

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SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE CITATION FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER For building a powerful movement for racial equality, courageously reigniting a glob...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Feds revive probe of Eric Garner chokehold death

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The feds have revived the grand jury probe into the NYPD chokehold death of Eric Garner — and a police witness who was questioned in fro...