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1. Black Lives Matter

   Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an organized movement in the United States advocating for non-violent civil disobedience in protest against incidents of police brutality against African-American people. An organization known simply as Black Lives Matter exists as a decentralized network with about 16 chapters in the United States and Canada, while a larger Black Lives Matter movement exists consisting of various separate like-minded organizations such as Dream Defenders and Assata's Daughters. The broader movement and its related organizations typically advocate against police violence towards black people, as well as for various other policy changes considered to be related to black liberation.In July 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin in February 2012. The movement became nationally recognized for street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans: Michael Brown—resulting in protests and unrest in Ferguson, a city near St. Louis—and Eric Garner in New York City. Since the Ferguson protests, participants in the movement have demonstrated against the deaths of numerous other African Americans by police actions and/or while in police custody. In the summer of 2015, Black Lives Matter activists became involved in the 2016 United States presidential election. The originators of the hashtag and call to action, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, expanded their project into a national network of over 30 local chapters between 2014 and 2016. The overall Black Lives Matter movement is a decentralized network of activists with no formal hierarchy.The movement returned to national headlines and gained further international attention during the global George Floyd protests in 2020 following Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. An estimated 15 million to 26 million people participated (though not all are “members” of the organization) in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, making Black Lives Matter one of the largest movements in U.S. history. The movement has advocated to defund the police and invest directly into black communities and alternative emergency response models.A June 2020 Pew Research Center poll found that the majority of Americans, across all racial and ethnic groups, have expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

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1. black lives matter

   Read the full text of the Black Lives Matter poem by Kenneth R. Jenkins on the Poetry.com website.

How to pronounce Black Lives Matter?

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How to say Black Lives Matter in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Black Lives Matter in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Black Lives Matter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Black Lives Matter in a Sentence

1. Andrew Yang:

   We're talking about Black Lives Matter, we must deal with police misconduct but we have to deal with this real, pervasive, handgun problem we have in New York City.

2. Scott Bowman:

   I think the students have the right to hear what he has to say, on the other hand, it could be explosive in the current environment. Nothing he says is hate speech in my view but his critiques of the Left’s obsession with micro-aggressions and various tactics of groups (e.g., Black Lives Matter) would be labeled racist by them, which is his point, by the way.

3. Patrisse Cullors:

   I wanted it to go viral, on July 15th, 2013 I said that Alicia Garza and I had created a thing called Black Lives Matter and we hope that it will be bigger than we can ever imagine.

4. Elle Hearns:

   There is a level of disconnect that this current administration has, they also haven't declared that black lives matter either so that's something that the current administration could also do. We haven't seen that from them either.

5. Phyll Opoku-Gyimah:

   It’s about diversity, about speaking truth to power on a number of different issues for our trans non-binary siblings (and) for Black Lives Matter.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter