Essays on Black Lives Matter

Perspective is key; it allots insight into those things that need to be further explored. I understand that no one person has spent every single second with me, save for me. And that is how it works for everyone–the human experience. The first moments of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

The color discrimination was one of the significant standards anywhere in the world for discrimination. People not from Africa but in other regions also faced this discrimination because of color. It was observed that people with dark color complexion like Africans were chosen to become...