Essays on Black Lives Matter

In February 26, 2012, a 17-year-old African-American teenager, high school student Trayvon Martin was killed by a neighborhood watch, administered by the local police department, George Zimmerman. Trayvon was walking on the streets of Sanford, Florida, in a gated community, where he was at the...

Throughout history, black lives picked and picked away at more freedom. The movement started microscopic and with small actions, and eventually turned into what it is today- an organization that refuses to be ignored. This ever-changing movement has all different types of retaliations such sit-ins...

In Florida of July 2013, a man by the name of George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin; which began the activist movement, Black Lives Matter, later beginning the hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter). Following Martin’s death, Black Lives Matter...

Our criminal justice system in America has offered the suggestion that being black is a crime. Each case that involved a police officer killing an unarmed black person has left society with an empty void every time the defender was determined not guilty. This social...

Black Lives Matter, also known as BLM, is an international activist movement, originating in the African American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. There have been a lot of protests, riots, and fights due to police officers not being convicted...

Somewhere within the vary of 1948 and 1950, a radio arrangement referred to as Destination Freedom disclosed on WMAQ, a close-by Chicago NBC station. Richard Durham made Destination Freedom trying to profile critical African American chronicled figures and their commitments to American vote based system...

The mysterious murders of young black men such as the teenager Michael Brown, Tanisha Anderson, and Eric Garner and among others have triggered an upsurge of demonstrations that have cultured into the local Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM). The issue has been on the headlines...