WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 people protesting U.S. President Donald Trump converged on Black Lives Matter Plaza on Tuesday night, just a block from the White House, while hundreds more marched through parts of downtown Washington, sometimes blocking traffic and setting off fireworks. Scattered protests also took place from Seattle to New York City, but…
Black Lives Matter protesters along with demonstrators for dozens of other ‘action groups’ are threatening to cause unrest if President Trump continues to press ahead with legal challenges that prevent the counting of votes in crucial swing states in the 2020 election. The BLM movement along with the Count Every Vote movement are also calling…
When Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Charlane Oliver knew things had to change — and that mobilizing Black Americans was the solution. A week after the 2016 election, the longtime Nashville, Tenn., community organizer and political worker helped found the Equity Alliance, a grassroots organization committed to encouraging Black civic engagement,…
Unrest has begun across the U.S. ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election, with violent political clashes occurring in Beverly Hills and a get-out-the-vote Black Lives Matter march in North Carolina ending with police pepper spray and eight arrests. In Beverly Hills, thousands of President Donald Trump’s supporters gathered on Saturday afternoon, waving American flags and signs…
Black Lives Matter has been a lot of things in its brief, fiery life. It has been a slogan, a rallying point. A movement that led protests coast to coast, calling for America to get serious about preventing Black deaths at the hands of law enforcement. A heaven-sent resource for people like Helen Jones, desperate…
No matter which side of the political spectrum you sit, I think there is one thing that we can all agree on: this election is making us all more than a little cray-cray. Each of these issues is plaguing our country: the COVID-19 pandemic (at the time of writing this article, The President has just…
