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This year's Pride Month comes at a time of national and global unrest. In April and May, Pride parades, festivals and other celebrations. With Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, Alicia created the Black Lives Matter Global Network, with 40 chapters in 4 countries, to change the ways in which Black. OLOC stands with the movement called Black Lives Matter as it moves forward in the challenging work of creating change in the criminal justice system.

The political insurgency of BLM evokes the likes of earlier black queer activists — lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists of African descent — who, because of Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. Putting protest back into Pride: Black Lives Matter pushes LGBTQ organizations to face histories of exclusion. J J, PM PDT. By Antonia Hylton. LOS ANGELES — An Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. The year-old black lesbian and founder of Black Lives Matter Pasadena was found guilty of “taking by means of a riot any person from the lawful custody of Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.

Black Lives Matter is a central target of disinformation and you are a key line of defense. Report suspicious sites, stories, ads, social accounts, and posts about BLM. Help Us. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and.  A video from is being circulated online of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors a self-described "queer," artist, author, organizer and college professor who founded the.

The event — which took place just ahead of the 50th anniversary of L. The event's initial organizers found themselves the recipients of backlash when they announced their plans in early June : Christopher Street West, or CSW, the historic, mostly white-led organization that typically produces the annual LA Pride Festival and Parade, never reached out to coordinate with Black Lives Matter activists about the march. In addition, it hired an event organizer who applied for a police permit for the parade — a move seen as offensive by many Black activists in the midst of anti-brutality protests. For many people at the march Sunday, the backlash highlighted how the growing Black Lives Matter movement had the power to force ostensibly progressive LGBTQ organizations to grapple with blind spots and long-unaddressed histories of exclusion.