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- - - - An example of street art by artists Christine Warner and Brandon Wilkinson, depicting Ferguson as a Phoenix rising from the ashes
- - - - The Civil Rights Movement
        
        Martin Luther King Jr 1964 UK Speech
      - The Black Panthers
        
        Black Panthers 10 Point Program
        
        The Panthers are much more militant than the Black Lives Matter movement. While Black Lives Matter mainly focus on police brutality and anti-racism, the Panthers go beyond. They focus on justice for black economic inequalities in addition to violence. They demand employment, homes, and food. They are firmly anti-establishment and anti-capitalist, while Black Lives Matter primarily works within these systems.
      - 80 Years of Fergusons
        
        This article explains the history of protests and police brutality
    - - Black Lives Matter: What We Believe
        
        Here, on the Black Lives Matter website, the organization lists its goals. They wish to build a world where where "every black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive." They emphasize community and uniting people to achieve justice. They also strive to make an inclusive space for all--in particular, they speak about the importance of including trans and queer folk. They want to unite and support all regardless of age, race, class, education, and sexuality to fight for justice for blacks
      - Black Lives Matter: A Movement not a Moment
        
        Taylor does a documentary style piece of the Black Lives Matter movement. There she explains the origins of the movement as a protests against the police shooting of Mike Brown. There was a struggle, at first, to keep those protest non-violent. Slowly though, Black Lives Matter became a legitimate organization accepted not as a "violent protest" but as a political movement. Black women were important early leaders of the movement and aided on the ground in Ferguson.
        As Black Lives Matter became more prominent, it began to receive money from billionaire run fondations. Many are concerned this funding might water down the goals of the movement, particularly in achieving economic justice for Black Americans. Ferguson shows how protests are effective and become legitimate, political organizations, but there are often conflicts between the original goals and the need to collect capital to keep the movement going.
      - Black Lives Matter: About Us
        
        This is a brief summary of what Black Lives Matter is about. They affirm not only blacks' right to live, but a right to "humanity". They also stand in solidarity with members of the black community who may be forgotten about: the queer, the disabled, the undocumented, those with records, and black women.
    - - Black Lives Matter Founders Describe 'Paradigm Shift' In The Movement
        
        Three of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement--Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi--all black women, sit down with NPR to discuss how the movement has changed. The movement has become more mainstream with the increased visibility of racial injustice on social media. The leaders embrace this change, with Tometi celebrating that "We're seeing a really vibrant, multiracial movement for Black Lives."
    - - In Cosmo of all places, there is a list debunking misconceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement. It explains that the movement is an actual organization with many goals. They do not hate white people, cops, or queer folks, it is an inclusive movement that focuses on justice for black lives.
- - - - Serena Williams
        
        In Citizen, Serena Williams is used as an example of how black women are both portrayed in our culture and unfairly policed. Williams is one of the greatest tennis players of all time, but many have note that she is often treated unfairly by the referees of her matches. When the ref makes an unfair call against her, naturally, she get upset like most professional tennis players do. However, this fuels the mainstream media and the tennis audience (which is predominantly rich and white) to see her as angry and unruly. This plays into the common stereotype of the "angry black women"
      - A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement by Alicia Garza
        
        One of the founders of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza, pens a piece about how the movement has been co-opted by others. The main leaders of the movement--queer black women--have found that their organizing work and art has been forgotten or stolen by the the mainstream media. Messages have also been distorted, like in an episode of Law and Order:SVU that changes Black Lives Matter to "Our Lives Matter". Similarly, the All Lives Matter movement has erased and diminished the message of Black Lives Matter because it ignores the struggle of black folks fighting for justice.
    - - Policing of Blackness
        
        Violence
    - - The word "black" itself is highly contentious. It has other connotations like "soiled" and "evil". There has been shifts to call blacks something else, something more politically correct like "negro", "colored" or the popular "African-American" today. These also have negative connotations because that had been used by whites with outdated and racist views. The black community itself though has embraced the word "black" and has begun to use it as a political word--"black power", "black arts", "black panthers". This can be seen in the fairly new Black Lives Matter movement as well.
    - - What does America even mean? Americans like to tout abstract words like "liberty" and "freedom" as American, but it is hard to actually pin down definitions of those words. There is a mythos that America was this "new" land with no history, which completely ignores the natives who once lived here.
    - - By the same author as Citizen, this explains the constant fears and agony that one has as a black person. Black people are killed over nothing--putting their hands in their pockets, going to church, walking down the street. There is a fear that you or your loved ones--your son, your daughter, your husband, your wife--could be the next one unjustly killed. Everytime a black person dies, the community mourns because they understand their struggles.
  - - - Berlant describes citizenship in terms of American studies. To be a citizen in a country is to be a part of the community of a country. However a country describes "citizen" is whoever is included in a country. Who receives justice? Who receives political rights? Who is considered "free"? America originally only granted citizenship to free white men, and has since struggled to include every one else into this idea of citizenship.