Black Lives Matter
description: an activist movement advocating for the rights of black individuals
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by Jimmy Wales · 28 Oct 2025 · 216pp · 60,419 words
of Reasons and Risks,” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, July 10, 2024. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 8 Daniel Victor, “Pepsi Pulls Ad Accused of Trivializing Black Lives Matter,” New York Times, April 5, 2017. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 9 Jeffrey M. Jones, “U.S. Confidence in Higher Education Now Closely Divided,” Gallup, July
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by Megan Kimble · 2 Apr 2024 · 430pp · 117,211 words
of glass and steel. On the other side of the highway, the Austin Police Department’s headquarters towered over Eighth Street, the backdrop to the Black Lives Matter protests that had erupted in June, when thousands of people climbed onto I-35 and stopped traffic on the interstate that would eventually pass through
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
murder, his claims of self-defense rejected by the jury. But the practice of using vehicles to menace, injure, and kill protesters reemerged during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. In fact, legislators in several states have moved, with varying levels of success, to protect drivers who strike protesters with their vehicles
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seems more invested in controlling marginalized populations by intimidation than in creating true and lasting safety—much less a vibrant and accessible public realm. The Black Lives Matter movement, for a time, forced the nation to confront the consequences of maintaining a status quo that systematically patrols and limits the movement of Black
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policeman who stopped him for a broken brake light in South Carolina. Unfortunately, we could go on and on. Historian Rod Clare notes that the Black Lives Matter movement highlighted an issue that has long poisoned American society: what he calls “the long-standing issue of [B]lack mobility. That is, where [B
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“the automobile stood”: Seo, Policing the Open Road, 5. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “long-standing issue of [B]lack mobility”: Rod Clare, “Black Lives Matter: The Black Lives Matter Movement in the National Museum of African American History and Culture,” Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 6, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 122, doi.org
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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
political consciousness, woke entered broader usage in 2008 as a lyric from Erykah Badu’s recording of “Master Teacher.” It gained further prominence during the Black Lives Matter movement, evolving by the Trump years into a broader call for the normalization of all marginalized identities within language and culture. The Guardian journalist Julia
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, who was suffocated by law enforcement during his arrest over a suspected counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. During the following month, approximately twenty million Americans joined Black Lives Matter–organized marches across the country, with parallel protests erupting worldwide. The Pharrell-produced Kendrick Lamar song “Alright” became its unofficial anthem. Despite deep political polarization
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, 67 percent of Americans expressed support for Black Lives Matter. The left rallied around slogans like “Defund the police” and “ACAB” (“All cops are bastards”). The right countered with its own iconography, including “Blue Lives
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–style rifle, killing two protesters, and being acquitted. That summer of racial strife saw politics further saturate global culture. Multinational corporations issued public statements supporting Black Lives Matter. Anna Wintour apologized to her staff: “I know Vogue has not found enough ways to elevate and give space to black editors, writers, photographers, designers
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the triumph of the sore winner.” But Ye was hardly the only controversial figure of the new right. After Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal for killing Black Lives Matter protesters, he received a standing ovation at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in 2021. “You’re a hero to millions,” the group’s leader, Charlie
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.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188543449/what-does-the-word-woke-really-mean-and-where-does-it-come-from. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Black Lives Matter movement: Montanaro, “What Does the Word.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “no grand distinction”: Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social), Bluesky, December 16, 2024
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/2019/10/14/pharrell-blurred-lines-chauvinist-culture. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT twenty million Americans: Larry Buchanan, Quoctrung Bui, and Jugal K. Patel, “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History,” New York Times, July 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george
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-protests-crowd-size.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT 67 percent of Americans: Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Kiley Hurst, and Dana Braga, “Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement Has Dropped Considerably from Its Peak in 2020,” Pew Research Center, June 14, 2023, https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/06/14/support
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-for-the-black-lives-matter-movement-has-dropped-considerably-from-its-peak-in-2020. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse: Joseph Ax, “Hero or Vigilante
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-two-million-dollar-donation/index.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Pepsi became a punch line: Daniel Victor, “Pepsi Pulls Ad Accused of Trivializing Black Lives Matter,” New York Times, April 5, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/business/kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
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Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
by reactionary disgust for the #MeToo movement against sexual assault and rape culture; the restrictions and perceived conformity of Covid-19 lockdowns; and opposition to Black Lives Matter, left-wing social justice movements, and anything that might be dismissed under the increasingly broad pejorative of “woke.” Musk and his cohort had thrived on
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. Musk’s fear of a “woke mind virus,” which initially seemed like some kind of dorm-room joke, turned out to be quite real. In Black Lives Matter protests and college encampments in support of Gaza, he and other billionaires who claimed to identify as socially liberal saw a form of progressive politics
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he was looking for: he posted about finding a pile of T-shirts emblazoned with the hashtag “#staywoke,” which had been made to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey once wore one. In those early months of Musk’s “hardcore Twitter,” the new owner tweeted lots of bold
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-suite. “These companies became captured,” as Andreessen described it, by anti-capitalist activists. “Captured” may have been hyperbole. Beyond some token statements in favor of Black Lives Matter or the proliferation of DEI programs, there was no real cultural revolution in Silicon Valley, no guillotines appearing on the Google campus. Even #MeToo barely
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, Armstrong equivocated on how to address dissent within his firm, which was starting to experience employee walkouts. In a Twitter thread, he used the phrase Black Lives Matter, said he was getting “educated” on issues, and offered support for Black employees. But the company environment soon changed.31 Armstrong deleted his Twitter thread
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they were being released from the Democratic Party’s social expectations. Having already tamped down on employees’ political protests, they would no longer donate to Black Lives Matter organizations or demonstrate patience when faced with labor unrest. They could be shameless again. “Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an
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of a Black Bolshevik (Columbia University Press, 2022). Hughes… Ellison… Wright: The New Masses, r. 11, AFPSR; see also Christopher J. Lebron, The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea (Oxford University Press, 2016); David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was in Vogue (Penguin, 1997). 15. Locke: See Jeffrey C
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this promise, but it certainly seems that it has decided to commit more political capital to the issue than previous governments did. Equally, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, which have cast light on the power of police unions and the extensive legal protections that some police forces enjoy
The London Problem: What Britain Gets Wrong About Its Capital City
by Jack Brown · 14 Jul 2021 · 101pp · 24,949 words
. When a national organisation such as the Premier League or the National Trust takes a ‘liberal’ stance on an issue, as seen recently during the Black Lives Matter movement, it is accused of metropolitan, liberal bias. But it is also possible that these decisions are the result of senior people thinking long and
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overshadowed by fans booing players taking a knee before kick-off ’, BBC, 6/12/20. 27.C. Hope, ‘National Trust faces anger after chairman defends Black Lives Matter movement’, Telegraph, 6/11/20. 28.J. Brown, ‘London, UK’, op. cit. 29.A. Gimson, R. Jolley, S. Katwala, P. Kellner, A. Massie & R. Miranda
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by Bernadett Varga · 14 Aug 2022
acknowledged Belgium’s share of the moral responsibility for the killing in 1961 of Patrice Lumumba, the father of Congo’s independence. In 2020 the Black Lives Matter movement reached Belgium and protests spread across Brussels, where a crowd of about 10,000 people demonstrated against racism. This was followed by a letter
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by Cal Newport · 5 Feb 2019 · 279pp · 71,542 words
important search function provided by this tool, for example, is thresholding. Here’s how Jennifer explains it: I can search for a certain topic, say Black Lives Matter, and then set a threshold in TweetDeck that allows me to listen to this topic, but only see tweets with 50 likes or retweets. I
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