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Angela Rye Talks the State of the Black Union. Next Stop ‘the Black Party’?
The premiere of Angela Rye’s four-episode special for BET was a riff on President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union, wherein he continued to dip into his bag of cheap tricks, pulling out dog whistles and race-baiting to assure his “base” that he’s the white supremacist in chief. As usual, Rye, former general counsel…
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Black Lives Matter Issues Official Statement on Donald Trump’s Election
The national leaders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network said Tuesday that their mandate remains unchanged in the wake of “the election of a white supremacist to the highest office in American government.” In a statement released exclusively to Mic, BLM said that it will continue to organize and work to end all state-sanctioned…
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2 Years After Ferguson, Mo., the Fight Grows, Goes On for Black Lives Matter
It’s been two years since the killing of an 18-year-old unarmed African-American teen named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., who was Gunned down by a white police officer named Darren Wilson. The killing sparked two weeks of protest from unarmed Black Lives Matter demonstrators carrying signs proclaiming, “I am Mike Brown” and “Hands up, don’t…