Tag: Black Lives Matter

“Not a single person was killed on the day of the rioting. But the following month, May, would conclude with 41 homicides — the most the city had experienced in a month since the 1970s.”

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Essayist Zandria F. Robinson considers the festivities of #MLK50.

Singer Janelle Monáe’s first full-length album in five years, “Dirty Computer,” takes an explicit look at sexual expression and female identity.

Activist DeRay Mckesson says that to make this world a better place, people need to pick one thing to work on and keep at it.

A special police unit terrorized the innocent and murdered the unarmed in the years after Detroit’s race riots.

In a new story for Wired, Bijan Stephen looks at how the Black Lives Matter movement uses social media to organize and fight for change. As Stephen writes, “any large social movement is shaped by the technology available to it,” tailoring their goals and tactics to the media of their time. For the nascent Black Lives Matter […]