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The Strike for Black Lives was a mass walkout that occurred throughout the United States on July 20, 2020. Occurring during the George Floyd protests, the main goals of the strike were to draw attention to systemic racism and racial inequality in the United States, with additional goals including a raising of the minimum wage in the United States, stronger protections for unionizing, and ...
Campaign Zero is an American [1] police reform campaign launched on August 21, 2015. [2] The plan consists of ten proposals, all of which are aimed at reducing police violence. [3]
DeRay Mckesson (born July 9, 1985) is an American civil rights activist, podcaster, and former school administrator. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An early supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, he has been active in the protests in Ferguson, Missouri , and Baltimore, Maryland and on social media outlets such as Twitter and Instagram. [ 2 ]
Rejecting an appeal brought by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, the Supreme Court skipped deciding whether the leader of a demonstration can be sued for an injury to a police officer ...
The justices rejected an appeal from DeRay Mckesson in a case that stems from a 2016 protest over the police killing of a Black man in Baton Rouge. At an earlier stage of the case, the high court ...
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyCampaign Zero, the well-funded police reform nonprofit co-founded by famous activist DeRay Mckesson—the influential Pod Save the People host, former ...
Samuel Sinyangwe (born May 12, 1990) [1] is an American policy analyst and racial justice activist.Sinyangwe is a member of the Movement for Black Lives, the founder of Mapping Police Violence, a database of police killings in the United States and the Police Scorecard, a website with data on police use of force and accountability metrics on US police and sheriff's departments.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Black Lives Matters organizer DeRay Mckesson, letting stand a lower court’s decision that some critics fear could wind up limiting the ...