The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has been circulating in the media since 2013 when it was created. The Black Lives Matter Movement was created after the murderer of the teenage African American boy, Trayvon Martin was acquitted. He was an unarmed teenager walking home from 7-11 when George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, approached him. There are several witness statements for the altercation, in the end, we […]

African Americans as a whole have been oppressed and wrongfully treated for centuries simply because their skin color was different from that of Caucasians, who are of European origin, and therefore were deemed inferior to the white race. Throughout their time period of oppression, African Americans were forced into slavery and were treated like animals by Caucasians. African American men were forced to do strenuous […]

Black Lives Matter is a social movement that focuses on the protesting against the violation of rights in the African-American community. Their mission is to criticize the discrimination and violence many people have towards black individuals. Mistreatment, exploitation, harassment, racism, and violence are among the many abuses black people receive. There are not any requirements to join this protest group. You only have to strongly […]

The group ‘Black Lives Matter‘ started as an international activist movement that aimed at campaigning against violence and racism toward black people in 2013. The group ‘Black Lives Matter’ started after an African-American was shot dead by George Zimmerman who was a White American on February 26, 2012 (Gitlin, 2019). Things escalated after Zimmerman was acquitted for all charges against him where the court argued […]

The Black Lives Matter movement has been connecting communities and bringing forth change since the year 2013. The movement started off as social media hashtag, in hopes to gain awareness about police brutality then slowly grew into a “member-led global network [with] more than forty chapters” (“Herstory”). These chapters are spread across the United States and Canada in cities such as Los Angeles, California, Birmingham, […]

Our main focus in this class is the study of social issues, social problems, and social movements from a sociological perspective. We examine how the changing nature of particular social issues seen as social problems, and analyze and understand how they are constructed in different ways in certain social and economic contexts and times. The focal point of my social movement is the Black Lives […]