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[8] [44] In a 2015 interview that resurfaced in 2020, Cullors stated that she and co-founder Garza were "trained Marxists". [45] Asked whether she believed in violence as a method of protest, she has said that she believes in "direct action, but nonviolent direct action", and that this was also the belief of the Black Lives Matter movement. [35]
He was a cousin of Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Anderson was restrained due to suspicion of a hit-and-run and driving under the influence following a traffic collision and due to a witness testimony of an individual attempting to get in their car without their permission. Police ordered Anderson to sit down ...
View Article The post Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors steps down as executive director appeared first on TheGrio. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Co-Founder and ...
Her activism has been associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. [3] [4] She is a founder of a Seattle-based justice group called Outside Agitators 206, [5] which was disbanded when she became a cofounder of the Seattle chapter of Black Lives Matter around September 2015. [6]
On June 11, 2015, mourners mounted a three-hour vigil near Manhattan Detention Center and chanted "Justice for Kalief". A concurrent vigil was held on Rikers Island. People held up signs reading "Black Lives Matter". [18] Browder was interred in an unidentified Bronx cemetery following a funeral service at Unity Funeral Chapels on June 16, 2015 ...
Black Lives Matter co-founder Melina Abdullah protests the presence of City Councilmember Kevin de Leon at the council meeting at Los Angeles City Hall on Jan. 17, 2023. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
The lawsuit was announced at a news conference Thursday hosted by Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles co-founder Melina Abdullah, who said that Bowers shut her and other leaders out of the BLM social ...
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is a member of the coalition organization Movement for Black Lives. [ 23 ] On April 27, 2022, the BLMGN announced that its expanded Board of Directors will include Cicley Gay, D'zhane Parker and Shalomyah Bowers.