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#BlackLivesMatter
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=BlackLivesMatter=
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==Background Information==
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It’s an activist movement from the US that began in July 2013 after George Zimmerman killed the African-American teen Trayvon Martin.
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The activist campaigns against the police brutality against African American in the United States.
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The movement grew enormously after the deaths of Michael Brown,  a African Americans in Ferguson and Eric Garner from New York City, both unarmed. In both cases the police officers were not charged with murder. With the Ferguson incident, the movement reached national awareness.
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The movement has met with Barack Obama and other leaders to demand an end to racial profiling, police brutality, mass incarceration of African-Americans and the militarization of many US police departments.
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Revision as of 12:13, 15 September 2015

BlackLivesMatter

Background Information

It’s an activist movement from the US that began in July 2013 after George Zimmerman killed the African-American teen Trayvon Martin. The activist campaigns against the police brutality against African American in the United States. The movement grew enormously after the deaths of Michael Brown, a African Americans in Ferguson and Eric Garner from New York City, both unarmed. In both cases the police officers were not charged with murder. With the Ferguson incident, the movement reached national awareness. The movement has met with Barack Obama and other leaders to demand an end to racial profiling, police brutality, mass incarceration of African-Americans and the militarization of many US police departments.

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