A worldwide revolutionary movement called Black Lives Matter (BLM) was founded in the United States to combat bigotry and anti-Black discrimination, particularly when it manifests in law enforcement harassment. The phrase Black Lives Matter stands for the insistence that society regard people of color’s lives and decency on par with that of white persons. This is because people of color in the United States are significantly more susceptible to being murdered by police officers than white people.
Globally and in American cities, BLM activists have organized significant demonstrations, most of which have been planned via social media, majorly through #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter (Clayton, 2018). Black Lives Matter is a communal, unstructured campaign steered by activists in outreach programs who prepare their events and initiatives. The groups are associated with the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, a non-profit working for human liberties in the US, Canada, and the UK.
Three Black community activists who cofounded BLM in 2013 as an online movement raised awareness of the unlawful acts against people of color, sparking controversy on social media. The action then gets the attention of many, who organize peaceful demonstrations calling for justice to be served for illegal killings of people of color, where many of the perpetrators go unpunished (Clayton, 2018). Like other civil rights movements, BLM uses non-violent strategies to influence change. On the brighter side, BLM uses the online platform to spread its message. This is much more practical than those of other civic rights associations that decide to use in-person methods to convey their viewpoint, such as passing fliers by hand (Clayton, 2018). It is through media that impact is enacted in favor of BLM and other civil rights movements. The subtle means used by BLM have entirely restructured political systems, which the government cannot easily change as they are complicated systems.
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Clayton, D. M. (2018). Black lives matter and the Civil Rights Movement: A comparative analysis of two social movements in the United States. Journal of Black Studies, 49(5), 448–480. Web.