Within a span of six days, Melina Abdullah — Director of BLM Grassroots and co-founder of BLMLA, was targeted twice by LAPD in alleged swatting attempts. That makes THREE TIMES that our beloved Dr. Abdullah has been targeted in just over a year…
When we say #DefundThePolice, we mean all the police, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), who are demonstrating their slave-catching roots, riding horseback, and beating Haitian asylum-seekers with whips…
Black Lives Matter condemns the racist, anti-Black treatment of Haitians and all Black people seeking asylum in the United States. Rather than reversing Trump’s policies targeting Haitians for deportation, the Biden Administration continues to support and reinforce long-standing oppressive policies against Black immigrants and asylees…
Black people have witnessed and experienced death for centuries. Over the last year and a half, with COVID, we’ve experienced it at an even greater intensity. In this moment, we want to focus on food. Dirt. Nourishment…
The history of Black people and the labor movement is long and deep. Today, and every day, we honor the labor, and the labor organizing, of our Ancestors and our people…
Earlier this week, we saw far-right extremism at play: The conservative majority of the Supreme Court allowed a near-total abortion ban that will disproportionately impact Black women in Texas…
We refuse to wait around for the current far-right Supreme Court to put the people’s interests first. That’s why we’re demanding Congress support the Judiciary Act of 2021 — which would expand the court, totaling the number of Justices to 13…
In any crisis, it is the most marginalized and vulnerable that suffer the greatest impacts — climate change is no different. In the United States, disproportionate percentages of Black people live in places that are polluted with toxic waste, leading to negative health effects like cancer, asthma, and more…
In this episode, we see what it means for Black people to combat the impacts of a prison industrial complex meant to steal our dreams. Through organizing, we are rebuilding and reimagining our world — a world where white supremacy and historically anti-Black systems no longer exist…
Black August honors Black freedom fighters — past and present — many of whom were killed by the state or imprisoned for defending Black lives. August 21st itself marks three key moments in Black history…