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But as black activists in Boston noted at the time, «It's not the bus, it's us.»

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

De Abreu, 27, the co-founder of StopBlackFace.com, was describing a protest in Rotterdam last November, in which she was among roughly 200 activists arrested while protesting the controversial Black Pete (Zwarte Piet) character - St Nicolas» Moorish «helper», who is portrayed with a painted black face and curlyBlack Pete (Zwarte Piet) character - St Nicolas» Moorish «helper», who is portrayed with a painted black face and curlyblack face and curly wig.

It's why the volunteer who led his campaign in the Youngstown area had no issue saying racism was a creation of Barack Obama's Presidency and that Black Lives Matter activists were full of it.

In 1912 the civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois endorsed Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson for President and asked black voters to get behind Wilson's candidacy.

Harrison Jacobs: The top line headline about you, in the New York Times and other outlets is that you've sued the police 75 times, you are the lawyer for Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and every other major activist group.

But Black Lives Matter has steadily gained momentum since its founding in 2013, when activist Alicia Garza coined the phrase and fellow activist Patrisse Cullors made it a hashtag.

From her home office, Gloria Baylis — better known as a Black rights activist after she successfully sued the Hilton chain for discrimination in 1966 — imported and distributed medical devices for neurosurgery.

Ronald Edwards, a black civil rights activist in Minneapolis who contacted Reuters at the request of the police department, said he believed the city's police chief was doing her best to improve race relations.

In this week's roundup: A push for a new domestic terrorism law, Gonzo journalism on Nazis in Maine and a black activist saves a white supremacisIn this week's roundup: A push for a new domestic terrorism law, Gonzo journalism on Nazis in Maine and a black activist saves a white supremacisin Maine and a black activist saves a white supremacist.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

With half of all U.S. adults already in police facial recognition databases and the 2018 midterm election season upon us, the issue of political data mining feels urgent to Black activists.

In 2016, the ACLU in California also discovered through a public records investigation that social media surveillance companies like Geofeedia were improperly exploiting Facebook developer data access to monitor Black Lives Matter and other activistIn 2016, the ACLU in California also discovered through a public records investigation that social media surveillance companies like Geofeedia were improperly exploiting Facebook developer data access to monitor Black Lives Matter and other activistin California also discovered through a public records investigation that social media surveillance companies like Geofeedia were improperly exploiting Facebook developer data access to monitor Black Lives Matter and other activists.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

Politico Magazine notes that Elzie, who is black, became a Black Lives Matter activist after Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missblack, became a Black Lives Matter activist after Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, MissBlack Lives Matter activist after Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri.

Irish rock band U2 was forced to cancel its St. Louis concert scheduled Saturday over security concerns after Black Lives Matter activists clashed with police following the not guilty verdict of Jason Stockley in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselveIn recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselvein black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embrblack racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embrBlack Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embrBlack Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

Of course, to put abortion in such simple, black and white terms can be shocking to some — and many pro-abortion activists would disagree, saying that a child is not human or nor a person or does not possess rights, or some other such argument.

Many of these activists think black sociologist William Julius Wilson is correct to argue that structural changes in the U.S. economy have led to a mismatch of the labor and job supplies: residents of the inner city are unable to win the types of jobs that are available in the city, and they can't get to the jobs that are available to them in the suburbs.

In his emphasis on the injustice of the system he allows the poor to escape taking personal responsibility, even though he exalts an increasing spiritual awareness and the activist role of the (mostly) black churches.

Other grass - roots activists (mostly from black churches) in Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Birmingham with whom I've spoken say the same sorts of things.

The second definition would be Black Lives Matters a decentralized movement that maintains its momentum by having local organizers and activists take on a clarion call to people in their own spaces.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

These publicists are aware of the irony of their position — that their own «upward social mobility was, in large part, made possible by the struggles of those in the civil rights movement and the more radical black activists they now scorn.

I was a leftist, a liberal, a liberationist, yet here was a story that portrayed liberalism, in the form of the Harvard professor Henry Rutledge, as moral disorder, and leftist liberationism, in the professor's students — one a black activist, one a Jesuit — as a posturing sham.

The Manifesto was an explosive declaration of independence by a new generation of young black activists who had grown impatient with the slow - moving, nonviolent tactics that had prevailed in the Civil Rights Movement.

I have mentioned the variety of membership in the church — activists and contemplatives, rich and poor, old and young, black and white and yellow, morally concerned and aesthetically sensitive — all are included.

No longer able to accept black invisibility in theology and getting angrier and angrier at the white brutality meted out against Martin King and other civil rights activists, my Southern, Arkansas racial identity began to rise in my theological consciousness.

Sunday morning was often the only time in the week that a black person could assert their dignity, says Durley, the Atlanta civil rights activist who also is a retired Baptist pastor.

In a speech a few years ago, black activist Jesse Jackson described what needs to happen in the movemenIn a speech a few years ago, black activist Jesse Jackson described what needs to happen in the movemenin the movement.

She's an artist and visual activist in South Africa focusing on black transgender and gay identities and politics in South Africa.

FRANCIS, dressed in Activist gear — black robes and a red sash around his head — is standing by the bar.

Because of breastfeeding's well - documented benefits to both baby and mother, many blactavists — Black Lactation Activists, such as Kimberly Seals Allers [158] advocate and support breastfeeding in the African - American community.

On a visit to Parliament Square in the 1960s, Mandela had joked with fellow activist Oliver Tambo that one day they would see a statue of a black person there.

Bertha Lewis, a black activist with deep ties to de Blasio, is giving a civic award to NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, raising eyebrows in political circles because Stringer is being mentioned as a possible challenger to the mayor's 2017 re-election.

The conference runs through the end of the day Saturday and features such other speakers as Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the first Indian - American woman in the House, and activist attorney Zephyr Teachout.

In January, 2010 Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, a Pro-Life activist and a leader of the black community held a Pro-Life rally in Manhattan side - by - side with Chris Slattery of Expectant Mother Care where she encouraged opposition to Bill 37In January, 2010 Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, a Pro-Life activist and a leader of the black community held a Pro-Life rally in Manhattan side - by - side with Chris Slattery of Expectant Mother Care where she encouraged opposition to Bill 37in Manhattan side - by - side with Chris Slattery of Expectant Mother Care where she encouraged opposition to Bill 371.

At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Black Lives Matter activists will rally in front of the Department of Education to deliver a list of demands to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, which include ending zero tolerance programs, ending «black teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curricBlack Lives Matter activists will rally in front of the Department of Education to deliver a list of demands to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, which include ending zero tolerance programs, ending «black teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curricblack teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curricblack history curriculum.

We were Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Black, White, Latinx, Asian, straight, gay, citizen, DREAMers, activists in the areas of housing, criminal justice, LGBTQI rights, immigration, education, racial justice, women's rights, and many other issues.

Standing in front of a large orange - and - black «Paladino for Governor» banner, Golombek joked that he wasn't the only Democrat in the room, noting Rus Thompson, a WNY Tea Party activist and state comptroller candidate on Paladino's Taxpayers Party line, is, too.

A Black Lives Matter activist was acquitted in a brief court appearance by a judge who had ripped police witnesses for recalling events that were disproved by video.

In April 2015, Blake and State Senator Gustavo Rivera, along with liberal activist Groups, blasted the police for shoving and arresting activists in demonstrations seeking to express solidarity with protests in Baltimore, Md. over the mysterious death of black civilian Freddie Gray while in police custodIn April 2015, Blake and State Senator Gustavo Rivera, along with liberal activist Groups, blasted the police for shoving and arresting activists in demonstrations seeking to express solidarity with protests in Baltimore, Md. over the mysterious death of black civilian Freddie Gray while in police custodin demonstrations seeking to express solidarity with protests in Baltimore, Md. over the mysterious death of black civilian Freddie Gray while in police custodin Baltimore, Md. over the mysterious death of black civilian Freddie Gray while in police custodin police custody.

Though Democrats far outnumber Republicans in both the city and state, the hope is to train at least 200 potential activists from the black, Hispanic and other non-traditional GOP communities over a six - week period that can be used throughout New York for upcoming congressional and state Senate races as well as be dispatched nationally, Weingartner said.

Dressed in gray corporate attire to blend in with the businesswomen in the audience, the activists unfurled pink banners with «Stop Supporting the War» in black letters and briefly yelled the phrase at Clinton from the back of the room until they were hustled out by security guards.

A billboard in Times Square that accuses NYC construction unions of racial bias has co-opted the name of a growing activist campaign, declaring that black workers matter.

New York City fast food workers involved in the $ 15 - an - hour wage battle came together with Black Lives Matter and civil rights activists and headed to Washington at the beginning of the month to participate in the second Million Man March.

The «big black head» in Martin Luther King Park is a mistake, and has to be replaced with a statue that looks more like the slain civil rights leader, according to Samuel A. Herbert, a community activist who is leading a petition drive.

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro smeared Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson by claiming he directed violence against a Baton Rouge police officer in 2016, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday.