Essays on Black Lives Matter

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...

It has been almost five years since the fatal shooting of a man named Michael Brown. Five years since fire was kindled underneath the cauldron of the scorching basin to a call of justice extruding from the black community. The incident ended the life of...

 The thug life stands for ‘the hate you give little infants fuck everyone’. Which refers to when somebody has to start off with nothing but ends up succeeding. Today thug life is being used for criminals and drugs, which is different from what 2pac was...

Have you ever thought about how many people are incarcerated in America? Unfortunately, the number of incarcerations in America is increasing every year. The race percentage of incarceration in America is disproportionate; more African Americans are incarcerated than Caucasian Americans. This leads to the question;...

The Civil Rights Movement was a period committed to activism for equivalent rights and treatment of African-Americans in the United States. During this period, numerous individuals revitalized for social, legitimate and political changes to preclude separation and end isolation. Numerous significant occasions including the victimization...

To Kill a Mockingbird, famously written by Harper Lee in 1960 recounts a story of racial prejudice in a fictional town in the deep south of America. The novel, set in the 1930s, a time when racism was a huge factor in daily life, is...