| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| Alex Gangitano |
Biden criticizes Putin's 'ridiculous comparison' between Capitol rioters and critics |
The Hill (6/16/2021) |
President Biden on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putins comparison of the Black Lives Matter movement and arrests of Jan. 6 rioters to the treatment of pro-democracy protestors in Russia as ridiculous. |
2021 |
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Biden says there was double standard in treatment of Capitol mob, BLM protesters |
(1/7/2021) |
President-elect Joe Biden said the treatment of the rioters at the Capitol insurrection on Wednesday and of Black Lives Matter protesters last year revealed a blatant double standard in how law enforcement responded to the two groups. |
2021 |
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| Samy Abdallah |
BLACK LIVES MATTER ABROAD, TOO: PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO THE RACIALIZED POLICING OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS IN ISRAEL |
27 Wm. & Mary J. Race, Gender & Soc. Just. 515 [William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice] (Winter, 2021) |
Introduction I. Overview of the Ethiopian Jewish Presence in Israel A. Who Are the Ethiopian Jewish Minority? B. Escape to Israel from Religious Persecution in Ethiopia C. Settlement in a New Land II. Comparing Palestinians and Ethiopian Jews A. Insular Groups in a White Society B. Views on the Police C. The Rules of Engagement III. Possible... |
2021 |
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| Catherine Engberg |
BLACK LIVES MATTER AS GOVERNMENT SPEECH |
44-SEP L.A. Law. 10 [Los Angeles Lawyer] (September, 2021) |
In June 2020, communities across California and the world protested and mourned the nationally recognized acts of violence against Black Lives. #Say Their Names compiled a long list of black individuals who lost their lives in 2020 including Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd. A video of the Minneapolis police brutally killing George... |
2021 |
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| Megan Ming Francis , Leah Wright-Rigueur |
BLACK LIVES MATTER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE |
17 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 441 [Annual Review of Law and Social Science] (2021) |
Black Lives Matter, violence, protest, Black politics, civil rights, social movements This review examines the Black Lives Matter movement. Despite a growing body of literature focused on explaining the formation and activities of the present Black Lives Matter movement, less attention is given to the historical antecedents. What are earlier Black... |
2021 |
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| Megan Ming Francis , Leah Wright-Rigueur |
BLACK LIVES MATTER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE |
17 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 441 [Annual Review of Law and Social Science] (2021) |
Black Lives Matter, violence, protest, Black politics, civil rights, social movements This review examines the Black Lives Matter movement. Despite a growing body of literature focused on explaining the formation and activities of the present Black Lives Matter movement, less attention is given to the historical antecedents. What are earlier Black... |
2021 |
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| Olafimihan Oshin |
Blinken authorized embassies to fly Black Lives Matter flags on Floyd anniversary: report |
The Hill (5/27/2021) |
Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized all U.S. embassies overseas to fly flags honoring the Black Lives Matter movement on the anniversary of George Floyds death. |
2021 |
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| Toni Jaramilla |
BLM: UPRISINGS TO REFORM |
44-JUN L.A. Law. 28 [Los Angeles Lawyer] (June, 2021) |
Echoing many concerns of the 1960s Civil Rights movement, Black Lives Matter has raised awareness that policing should not be an us versus them proposition The words of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., A riot is the language of the unheard, ring as true today as they did in the 1950s and 1960s when he marched and protested during the civil... |
2021 |
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| Gabrielle M. Haddad |
CONFRONTING THE BIASED ALGORITHM: THE DANGER OF ADMITTING FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY RESULTS IN THE COURTROOM |
23 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 891 [Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law] (Summer, 2021) |
From unlocking an iPhone to Facebook tags, facial recognition technology has become increasingly commonplace in modern society. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and call for police reform in the United States, it is important now more than ever to consider the implications of law enforcement's use of facial recognition technology. A... |
2021 |
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| Zack Budryk |
Cori Bush dismisses concerns of being 'co-opted' by establishment |
The Hill (1/19/2021) |
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who worked as a Black Lives Matter organizer in Ferguson, Mo., before taking office, said in a new interview that she is not at risk of being co-opted by the party establishment. |
2021 |
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| Wayne D. Garris Jr., J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-D. MASS.: NO RACE BIAS, RETALIATION CLAIMS FOR WHOLE FOODS EMPLOYEES BANNED FROM WEARING BLM ATTIRE |
[Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily] (2/8/2021) |
The employees alleged that the grocer had a dress code, but only enforced it when they started to wear Black Lives Matter masks to work. A federal district court in Massachusetts has granted Whole Foods' and Amazon's motions to dismiss the race discrimination claims of a class of current and former employees who claimed that they were punished for... |
2021 |
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| Jacqueline M. Prats |
DIVERSITY INITIATIVES AND THE BACKLASH OF REVERSE DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS |
95-OCT Fla. B.J. 42 [Florida Bar Journal] (September/October, 2021) |
By now, most Americans have probably heard of the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements. Although the Black Lives Matter movement had been active for a number of years, it gained international attention in the summer of 2020 when protests broke out across the nation in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Among... |
2021 |
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| William C.C. Kemp-Neal J.D. |
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: USING ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING TO LIFT PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY, AND RE-SHAPE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE & POLLUTION IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
32 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 295 [Fordham Environmental Law Review] (Symposium-Spring, 2021) |
Long before the phrase I can't breathe became a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter activists protesting the deaths of Black people at the hands of police, environmental-justice activists warned that pollution was choking and killing people of color in the U.S. In the mid-1900s the United States began to see a rise in concern for environmental... |
2021 |
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| Veronica Root Martinez, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher |
EQUALITY METRICS |
130 Yale L.J. Forum 869 [Yale Law Journal Forum] (6/1/2021) |
This time is different. This time the death of another Black man at the hands of white police officers prompted calls for change not only within police departments, but across all aspects of American life. Those calls for change resulted in significant displays of support for the Black Lives Matter movement and interest in how to... |
2021 |
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| By Keith Lewis, CQ Roll Call |
ESG investing gains traction amid pandemic, Black Lives Matter: survey |
[CQ Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance Briefing] (9/23/2021) |
The environmental, social and governance movement, which seeks to pressure public companies to consider longer-term risks and a broader a range of stakeholders, gained traction amid the pandemic and heightened racial strife in the past year, according to survey of investment professionals. |
2021 |
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| Aina N. Watkins |
EXECUTIVE ORDER 13950, ON COMBATING RACE AND SEX STEREOTYPING: ITS EFFECT ON GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS' USE OF DIVERSITY TRAINING |
56-FALL Procurement Law. 10 [Procurement Lawyer] (Fall, 2021) |
In 2020, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that barred federal agencies from conducting diversity training focusing on anti-racism in the United States; the order came after the debut of the 1619 Project (a critical retrospective on race history in the United States), and in the aftermath of a surge in the Black Lives Matter... |
2021 |
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| G. Alex Sinha |
FALSE FLAGS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT: LYING THROUGH SYMBOLIC SPEECH |
89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 133 [George Washington Law Review Arguendo] (November, 2021) |
Ivan Hunter, a leader of the right-wing Boogaloo Bois, recently pleaded guilty to participating in a riot when he fired his AK-47 at the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct during a Black Lives Matter protest in May of 2020. Hunter's target--the home base of Derek Chauvin, the officer captured on video killing George Floyd--burned down at the hands... |
2021 |
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| Celine Castronuovo |
Feds deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters |
The Hill (8/18/2021) |
A report released Wednesday by racial justice organization The Movement for Black Lives found that the Justice Department (DOJ) under former President Trump intentionally targeted Black Lives Matter protesters with prosecutions in order to disrupt the movement amid last summers wave of civil unrest. |
2021 |
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| Tyler Valeska |
FIRST AMENDMENT LIMITATIONS ON PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF PROTEST SURVEILLANCE |
121 Colum. L. Rev. F. 241 [Columbia Law Review Forum] (12/15/2021) |
During and after last year's expansive Black Lives Matter protests, police departments nationwide publicly shared robust video surveillance of protestors. Much of this footage rendered individual protestors identifiable, sometimes in ways that seemed intentional. Such disclosures raise First Amendment concerns under NAACP v. Alabama ex rel.... |
2021 |
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| Karin M. Long, Editor-in-Chief |
FOREWORD |
30 Annals Health L. & Life Sci. I [Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences] (Summer, 2021) |
The Annals of Health Law & Life Sciences Editorial Board is proud to present the Summer 2021 Issue, the second edition of our thirtieth volume to date. 2020 was a year of change in the United States: at the start of the year, the global COVID-19 pandemic shut down communities, countries and economies, and by the summer, the Black Lives Matter... |
2021 |
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| Eric K. Yamamoto , Susan K. Serrano |
FOREWORD TO THE REPUBLICATION OF RACIALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
92 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1383 [University of Colorado Law Review] (Special Issue 2021) |
Systemic racism! The burgeoning 2020 Black Lives Matter protests vaulted this formerly whispered phrase into mainstream public consciousness. Through news headlines, social media, educational classes, opinion essays, word of mouth, and more, America grappled with the enormity of racism as a form of oppression of people and communities, as... |
2021 |
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| Eric K. Yamamoto , Susan K. Serrano |
FOREWORD TO THE REPUBLICATION OF RACIALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
92 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1383 [University of Colorado Law Review] (Special Issue 2021) |
Systemic racism! The burgeoning 2020 Black Lives Matter protests vaulted this formerly whispered phrase into mainstream public consciousness. Through news headlines, social media, educational classes, opinion essays, word of mouth, and more, America grappled with the enormity of racism as a form of oppression of people and communities, as... |
2021 |
Most Relevant |
| Olivia Moulds |
FRACKING THE BEDROCK OF DEMOCRACY: THE UNITED STATES POLICING OF PROTESTS VIOLATES THE RIGHT OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY UNDER THE ICCPR |
36 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 887 [American University International Law Review] (2021) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 888 II. BACKGROUND. 889 A. Overview of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests. 889 i. THE 2020 Black LiveS MATTER MARCHES. 889 ii. UNITED STATES LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO THE 2020 PROTESTS. 891 iii. UNITED STATES LAW ON THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLY. 896 B. Overview of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. 899 I.... |
2021 |
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| Olivia Moulds |
FRACKING THE BEDROCK OF DEMOCRACY: THE UNITED STATES POLICING OF PROTESTS VIOLATES THE RIGHT OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY UNDER THE ICCPR |
36 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 887 [American University International Law Review] (2021) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 888 II. BACKGROUND. 889 A. Overview of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests. 889 i. THE 2020 BLACK LIVES MATTER MARCHES. 889 ii. UNITED STATES LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO THE 2020 PROTESTS. 891 iii. UNITED STATES LAW ON THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLY. 896 B. Overview of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. 899 i.... |
2021 |
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| Norrinda Brown Hayat |
FREEDOM PEDAGOGY: TOWARD TEACHING ANTIRACIST CLINICS |
28 Clinical L. Rev. 149 [Clinical Law Review] (Fall, 2021) |
Like other sectors of society, legal education is undergoing a reckoning in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, demands for racial justice from the Movement for Black Lives, and related demands for abolitionism and defunding the police. Through the lens of a formal call to action issued by the Rutgers Law School faculty and the author's... |
2021 |
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| Laura Possessky, Charlene C. Goldfield |
GET THE SCITECH EDGE |
17 No. 2 ABA SciTech Law. 34 [SciTech Lawyer] (Winter, 2021) |
Diversity drives innovation. Although long substantiated by research, the correlation between increased innovation and diversity recently has received more attention in response to Black Lives Matter protests, the #MeToo movement, and other social justice events highlighting inequities on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, and... |
2021 |
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| Tal Axelrod |
GOP senator says he may have felt unsafe if BLM, antifa had stormed Capitol |
The Hill (3/13/2021) |
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said in an interview this week that he did not feel unsafe during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot but might have if Black Lives Matter protesters or far-left antifa activists had demonstrated there, setting off a new wave of criticism. |
2021 |
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| Nicolás Quaid Galván , Editor-in-Chief, Volume 11 |
GROWTH IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES |
11 Colum. J. Race & L. 421 [Columbia Journal of Race and Law] (July, 2021) |
Our Journal has published in unprecedented times. This year, we have gone to the streets to declare what should be a universal truth: Black Lives Matter. We have chanted the names of unarmed Black persons who have been killed by the state. This time, our demands for justice were not lost. In fact, a form of justice was delivered by a jury in... |
2021 |
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Habeas Corpus Reform and Black Lives Matter: A Historical Perspective |
57 NO 5 CRIMLAWBULL ART 3 [Criminal Law Bulletin] (2021) |
J.D., Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, 2021. Thank you to Professor Valena Beety for her guidance and encouragement in creating this Article. Thank you also to the editors of the Criminal Law Bulletin for their careful editing and thoughtful suggestions. |
2021 |
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| Travis D. Jones |
HUMANS LONG IGNORED: REVISITING NEPA'S DEFINITION OF "HUMAN ENVIRONMENT" IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER |
32 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 1 [Villanova Environmental Law Journal] (2021) |
In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement brought state-sanctioned violence against African Americans to the forefront of public discourse. In the wake of the horrific killing of George Floyd, highly charged protests exploded around the country, from Washington D.C. to Dallas to Portland. Across the internet, social media timelines and profile... |
2021 |
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