In her poem “A Litany of Survival,” black lesbian warrior poet Audre Lorde begins by inviting readers to meet her “at the shoreline, standing upon...
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Department of Justice Investigation on Ferguson Police Department
What is the meaning of Black Lives Matter? Alicia Garza breaks it down: See video: “Our movement is grounded in love. Less than 1% of...
In last Thursday’s class, we discussed this reading material and was joined by Dr. Marc Lamont Hill. To follow along with the student notes for...
9/22 Shut It Down: Black Lives Matter and the Ethics of Disruptive Protest (Or, What We Can Learn from Mizzou and Colin Kaepernick) This week’s session...
We Gon’ Be Alright: The Black Lives Matter Movement New York University Frank Leon Roberts Office Hours: By Appointment Thursdays 6:20-9pm Room 401, 1 Washington...
BLM Professor Frank Leon Roberts discusses “5 Ways of Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement,” at the “Broadway4BlackLivesMatter” event at Columbia University Law School. Introduced...
Activist Darnell Moore of the New York City Chapter of Black Lives Matter engaged in a discussion about the poetics and politics of the contemporary...
On September 10, 2015—-one year and 31 days after the killing of Michael Brown–Dr. Cornel West visited students in “Black Lives Matter” for a rousing...