Posts tagged with "black lives matter"

Juneteenth Black Creation Initiatives

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Lately, significant venture funds and brands have made public statements signaling their support of the Black Lives Matter Movement. This is a huge step forward, though it’s essential that our entire ecosystem of academics, researchers, technologists, professionals, executives, big tech CEO’s, founders, funds, philanthropists, and government back up their performative rhetoric with financial resources into […]

Companies Profiting from BLM

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By Eamonn Burke As the nation grapples with the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, among many others over many years, protests have called for massive police and corporate reform. Changes have already been made, as major companies and institutions have begun to exclude forms of racism and include new reforms and […]

Journalists × Curfew Orders

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Are curfew orders without press exemptions constitutional? In the wake of widespread protests against police violence and racial injustice, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press published an interactive map tracking curfew orders imposed by cities, counties and states — and whether they included exemptions for the news media. Since then, the Reporters Committee […]

YG – “FTP” Music Video

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Rapper YG has released an official video for his new single, “FTP,” a song which reacts to police brutality and serves as a musical form of a Black Lives Matter protest. The music video highlights recent activism over the systemic racism plaguing our country. YG delivers a powerful critique of the police force, as well […]

BLM × Bloomfield Township

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Justice For All The goal of Saturday, June 13th’s peace march is to instill a spirit of hope and empathy at a difficult time in our nation. Politics shall be set aside as fellow residents will gather in solidarity with the aim of facilitating an uncomfortable yet essential dialogue about race relations and police brutality. […]

DaBaby Releases BLM Remix

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DABABY’S RELEASES “ROCKSTAR (BLM REMIX)” FT. RODDY RICCH “ROCKSTAR” Reaches #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Amid the massive ongoing social justice movement, rap phenom DaBaby (South Coast Music Group/Interscope Records) has just released the Black Lives Matter Remix to his latest hit record, “ROCKSTAR” featuring Roddy Ricch. DaBaby opens the Seth In The Kitchen-produced track […]

Jon Batiste – WE ARE: A REVIVAL

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Jon Batiste, Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, announces WE ARE: A REVIVAL to be held on Friday, June 12 at 5PM outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. A celebration of Black lives through live music, this performance will be led by Batiste in conjunction with Sing For Hope, an organization offering messages of hope to veterans and […]

Zakat Provides Aid in Minneapolis

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Two days after George Floyd’s bereaved family and an emotional nation laid this unlikely icon of systemic American racism and anti-Black police brutality to rest in Houston, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called on Zakat Foundation of America — for the third time in 10 days — to haul in and hand out a truckload of farm-picked […]

BLM x Private Schools

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By Katrina Tiktinsky As Black Lives Matter protests continue throughout the U.S., the nation’s activists are extending their call for change to institutions of power well beyond the police force. In an ironic, but fitting, turn of events, the educational bodies which taught students to use their words are now seeing those rhetorical skills employed […]

Dominic Fike

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By Jason Tayer × Vaughn Lowery Alternative singer/songwriter Dominic Fike makes a powerful statement via Instagram regarding Black Lives Matter protest. He delves deep into systematic racism and how it has an adverse impact on both him and his family. As Dominic grows his fan and social media bases, he also uses these platforms to spark social […]