Black Lives Matter Has Grown More Powerful, and More Divided

Since the murder of George Floyd, the racial justice movement has received millions of dollars in donations. But some chapters have questioned how those funds are spent.

 Black Lives Matter Just Entered Its Next Phase

Months removed from the height of nationwide street protests, the movement has arrived at an important juncture, where its next steps will determine its success.

 Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement

BLM founder Opal Tometi always intended for the diaspora to come together in fighting anti-Black racism.

The Black Lives Matter Movement

What began as a call to action in response to police violence and anti-Black racism in the U.S. is now a global initiative to confront racial inequities in society, including environmental injustice, bias in academia and the public health threat of racism.

America’s Long Overdue Awakening to Systemic Racism

For many who have spent their lives fighting for racial equity, these nationwide protests and moment of reckoning have been a long time coming.

Black Lives Matter Fights Disinformation To Keep The Movement Strong

While polls show a large majority of African Americans continue to back the movement — overall support has dropped from record levels seen after Floyd's death. How much of that loss is due to disinformation is difficult to measure but what's certain is the battle over controlling what people believe about Black Lives Matter and its influence is ongoing.

Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History

The Women’s March of 2017 had a turnout of about three million to five million people on a single day, but that was a highly organized event. Collectively, the recent Black Lives Matter protests — more organic in nature — appear to have far surpassed those numbers, according to polls.

How Black Lives Matter fits into the long history of American radicalism

Black Lives Matter was created in 2013 by three Black women — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi — in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman.

How to argue with your family about: Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter activists feel that (for example) the frequency with which law enforcement officers kill black Americans, and the circumstances of those deaths, is evidence that police don't care enough about black lives to protect them as much as white ones. All lives matter, but black lives are under more of a threat. So they think the explicit reminder is necessary.

Six months after mass protests began, what is the future of BLM?

"When there’s a chance to make change, we must be ready to take it,” says YahNé Ndgo, a singer and activist with Philadelphia’s chapter of Black Lives Matter (blm). Events over the past six months, she says, have brought a rare chance to shape national affairs.

The Black Lives Matter Movement Is Being Written Into the Streetscape

By rechristening streets and spaces for Black Lives Matter, communities are working to capture the momentum of the movement in a concrete way.

The George Floyd Protests Show Leaderless Movements Are the Future of Politics

This movement has no MLK.

What Does Black Lives Matter Mean? How You Answer Reveals More About You Than The Movement Itself

Black lives matter. Three simple words. Easy to understand. Yet, why do we have such differing opinions about what they mean? It's because we understand them not through the words as they are written or spoken, but through our stage of development.

What Does ‘Black Lives Matter’ Mean?

The Black Lives Matter movement stands for taking accountability. It’s an attempt to take responsibility for the ways in which we, nonblack people, have perpetuated antiblackness within our communities, to acknowledge that it isn’t enough to be merely “not racist.” We must be antiracist.