The Black community has led an international anti-racist movement, spearheaded primarily by Black youth. While this brings together feelings of strength and support from the community, it has also taken a lot of emotional labour to lead this movement.
Read MoreICNC provides information and educational opportunities about nonviolent civil resistance to activists and organizers around the world. Their view is that nonviolent struggle is a social science that can be studied and understood, and that practitioners increase their chances of success by learning from each other as well as from cutting edge academic scholarship on this topic.
Read MoreAmid Chauvin trial and more police killings, calls for ‘peaceful’ protests sound obnoxious. But as Martin Luther King Jr. preached, we must reject peace that prioritizes calm over justice — and work toward building a positive peace instead. Maria J. Stephan explores the options.
Read MoreBlack Gospel Music has a long standing tradition in the Christian Church, with its powerful message and joyous sense of celebration. Contemporary artists of the 21st century offer that same emotionally rich experience with modern rhythm and blues arrangements. Such rich offerings.
Read MoreAnish Bensdira writes about her experience growing up as a person of colour in a predominately white culture. “Years of living in a small town nearly ‘white-washed’ me,” she writes. “Then BLM came along. Getting involved with activism made me realize who I am.”
Read MoreAustin Channing Brown writes that she is “not interested in love that is aloof, in a love that qualifies the statement, “Black lives matter,” because it is unconvinced this is true. I am not interested in a love that refuses to see systems and structures of injustice, preferring to ask itself only about personal intentions. I need a love that is troubled by injustice.”
Read MoreFresh Start at Kingsway-Lambton welcomed Rev. Michael Blair with his sermon "Why Our Lives Matter" on John 4:1-26. Rev. Blair's sermon explores the question, "Can saying Black lives matter be a theological statement, or is it limited to a statement of solidarity with the BLM movement?" Jesus's encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well and his affirmation of her particular life, calling those who follow Jesus to affirm particular lives as well.
Read MoreABC News takes a look back at the Black Lives Matter movement. The phrase "Black Lives Matter" was born in a Facebook post by Alicia Garza in response to the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, who fatally shot Martin. The movement emerged as a reaction to the perceived violence and systemic racism by police toward African-American communities.
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. (BLM Website Statement)
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter co-founder and artist Patrisse Cullors presents a luminous vision of the spiritual core of Black Lives Matter and a resilient world in the making. She joins Dr. Robert Ross, a physician and philanthropist on the cutting edge of learning how trauma can be healed in bodies and communities. A cross-generational reflection on evolving social change in this wonderful interview with Krista Tippett at The On Being Project.
Read MoreFour members of Shelburne’s Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Racism and Discrimination Task Force discuss their mission and the vision they have for Shelburne.
“The death of George Floyd hit everyone in the heart. White people do not walk out of their house with the fear they will be treated differently and killed because of something they can’t control. But Black people do,” says Soha Soliman.
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