There are 8 article(s) tagged Black Lives Matter Memphis:
“It’s time to move past surface-level ‘fixes’ that blame the community for the problems that systems create. We believe that communities, particularly communities of color, deeply and intimately understand the problem and therefore hold the transformative solutions that will last.”
Two conversations about police reform show the more detailed the proposed reforms become, the more differences they reveal.
But the reforms amount to a hollow ruse, says activist who complained about an officer who shot and killed a Black man in 2013.
Strike for Black Lives protesters gathered Monday outside the McDonald’s at 2073 Union for a lunch hour demonstration in support of efforts to combat systemic racism and demand better wages and benefits for workers including in the fast food industry.
Germantown Police were flagged down near Saddle Creek after counter-protesters arrived at a protest against racial inequality. One protester filed a report, and investigations will follow.
Daily Memphian photojournalist Patrick Lantrip takes a look at the first twelve straight days of protests over the death of George Floyd through 12 photos on the one-month anniversary of the first day of protests in Memphis.
Activists have painted Black Lives Matter on sidewalks surrounding the site where the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest stood for decades before it was removed in 2017.
Protests targeted the Flight Restaurant Group, juvenile court Monday in 20th day of demonstrations.
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