(noun): a social movement advocating for the end of violence against African Americans at the hands of law enforcement and citizen vigilantes
When tens of millions of Americans took to the streets to protest at violence against black people in the summer, their refrains included “I can’t breathe” and “no justice, no peace”. But no slogan captured the desperation of the moment better than BlackLivesMatter.
Graphic videos of African Americans Ahmaud Arbery, shot while out for a jog in Georgia in February, and George Floyd, suffocated by a police officer in Minnesota in May, paired with reports of black medical worker Breonna Taylor, shot by police officers while asleep in her bed in Kentucky, ignited a national racial reckoning.
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