Black Lives Matter
Fear and loathing in St. Louis: The death of democracy
November 15, 2017People's World reporter Al Neal was swept up in a mass arrest while covering the Stockley verdict protests in St. Louis. He says that the everyday activists in the city deserve the kind of coverage that...
Read moreAFL-CIO delegates walk out to join Black Lives Matter protesters
October 22, 2017To keep BLM activists out, every door was chained shut on the orders of convention center management. So AFL-CIO delegates left their hall to join the protest.
Read moreTwo weeks after Stockley verdict, St. Louis activists release demands
October 2, 2017“But there is really only one demand: Stop killing us.”
Read more100 days for justice: Another weekend of protest hits St. Louis
September 27, 2017Two competing narratives have emerged—one from activists calling attention to police brutality, the other from police justifying their actions on social media.
Read moreMounties spying on Black Lives Matter in Canada
September 25, 2017The RCMP was looking for possible links between what it called “African-American hate groups” and Black Lives Matter in Canada.
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