Black Lives Matter Movement

Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate: The Experiences of African American College Students by Daniel Solorzano, Miguel Ceja, and Tara Yosso, The Journal of Negro Education Abstract: Microaggressions are subtle insults (verbal,...

Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of U.S. Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair by Juliet Hooker, Political Theory Journal, 2016 Abstract: This essay seeks to understand the complex response to the current Black Lives Matter protests...

African Americans, Police Brutality, and the Criminal Justice System: an Introduction by Clarence Taylor, the Journal of African American History Abstract: There has been a major focus on African Americans and the US criminal justice system, particulary around the...

Black Lives Matter in health promotion: moving from unspoken to outspoken By Stephanie Leitch et al Abstract Racism is a public health crisis. Black communities (including Africans, the African diaspora and people of African descent) experience worse health outcomes...

Black Lives Matter Protesters Were Overwhelmingly Peaceful, Our Research Finds By Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman Abstract: The Black Lives Matter uprisings were remarkably nonviolent. When there was violence, very often police or counterprotesters were reportedly...

What is Anti-Racism? Excerpt from What it Means to Be Anti Racist by Anna North, VOX News "The term itself has come to be used to describe what it means to actively fight against racism rather than passively claim to be non-racist. Anti-racism involves 'taking stock...

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In this winner of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for an Especially Notable Book, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “not only exposes the canard of color-blindness but reveals how structural racism and...