Last week, Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), along with Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Jan Schakowsky (IL-06), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), families impacted by state-sanctioned violence, Shalomyah Bowers (Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Board Member), and movement leaders reintroduced the People’s Response Act, seminal legislation that would push forward an inclusive, holistic, and health-centered approach to public safety by creating a public safety division within the United States Department of Human Health and Services — because communities and experts agree that public safety is a matter of public health.

Today the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM GNF) announced an innovative campaign called Defund the Police Week of Action, tied to the 10-year anniversary of the Black Lives Matter movement on Thursday, July 13th.

Today, an impartial and thoughtful Black judge determined the lawsuit you filed against us, led by Melina Abdullah, had no merit.