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  John Lewis Visits 'Black Lives Matter Plaza,' Calls Protests 'Very Moving' (6/7/2020) Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) met with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and paid a visit to the site where the mayor had Black Lives Matter painted on a road that leads to the White House. 2020 Most Relevant
Henry Kenyon, CQ Roll Call Lawmakers Urge Inquiry into Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Data Privacy (10/19/2020) Democratic lawmakers led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to investigate legal, regulatory and civil liberties aspects of the federal government's surveillance of Black Lives Matter protests and of journalists covering them. 2020 Most Relevant
May Vutrapongvatana Mayor De Blasio Plans to Paint and Co-name City Streets in Honor of Black Lives Matter 2020 CityLand CityLand 1 (6/15/2020) The first street to be co-named and painted will be near City Hall. On June 9, 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the City will begin to co-name and paint selected streets in all five boroughs in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter movement, which began in 2013, works to address the issue of state and vigilante... 2020 Most Relevant
  Pence Says Leaders of Black Lives Matter Movement Have 'Radical Left' Agenda (6/28/2020) Vice President Pence said he thinks the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement are pushing what he called a political agenda of the radical left when pressed in a recent interview about why he still refuses to say the phrase Black lives matter.During an appearance on CBS News on Sunday, reporter John Dickerson asked the vice president why... 2020 Most Relevant
Alexander Bolton Romney Challenges Trump with Black Lives Matter March The Hill (6/9/2020) Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is challenging President Trumps antagonistic stance toward Black Lives Matter protesters at a time when Trumps support in the polls is dropping. 2020 Most Relevant
Tala Doumani , Jamil Dakwar Rubber Bullets and the Black Lives Matter Protests 24No.2 Human Rights Brief 77 (Winter 2020) Linda Tirado, a freelance photographer and activist, drove to Minneapolis from Nashville to photograph the protests that had erupted on May 26, 2020. She had just taken a photo and lowered her camera when she felt her face explode. Screaming I'm press! I'm press! Linda had been shot in the left eye by a rubber bullet. After being rushed into... 2020 Most Relevant
  Sen. Loeffler Opposes Wnba Black Lives Matter Plan (7/7/2020) Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) is coming under criticism from the Womens National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) after writing a letter saying the league should not go forward with a plan to put the names of Black victims of police violence on players' jerseys. 2020 Most Relevant
  Trump Likes Tweet about Hbo's 'Insecure' Prompting User to Change Name to 'Black Lives Matter' (6/8/2020) President Trump liked a tweet about HBO's Insecure" Sunday evening 2020 Most Relevant
Marina Pitofsky Trump Rips Black Lives Matter Protesters in Pittsburgh: 'Thugs!' The Hill (9/8/2020) President Trump on Tuesday slammed a group of protesters after a video went viral this week showing demonstrators confronting diners eating outdoors at a restaurant in Pittsburgh. 2020 Most Relevant
  Trump Says Black Lives Matter Is 'Bad for Black People' (8/31/2020) President Trump on Monday decried Black Lives Matter as a discriminatory" organization that is "bad for Black people" as part of a broader diatribe against protests in response to racial injustice." 2020 Most Relevant
Brett Samuels Trump: Black Lives Matter Mural in Nyc a 'Symbol of Hate' That Would Denigrate Fifth Avenue The Hill (7/1/2020) President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) for moving ahead with plans to paint Black Lives Matter along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, calling the mural a symbol of hate."" 2020 Most Relevant
David B. McNamee "BLACK LIVES MATTER" AS A CLAIM OF FUNDAMENTAL LAW 14 University of Massachusetts Law Review 2 (Winter, 2019) In this Article, I argue that we should understand #BlackLivesMatter as a claim on the Constitution--a very special kind of constitutional claim, on the Constitution as fundamental law. It is a paradigmatic contemporary example of this category of constitutional law for citizens, one that reaches back past the roots of the American Revolution and... 2019 Most Relevant
David B. McNamee "BLACK LIVES MATTER" AS A CLAIM OF FUNDAMENTAL LAW 14 University of Massachusetts Law Review 2 (Winter, 2019) In this Article, I argue that we should understand #BlackLivesMatter as a claim on the Constitution--a very special kind of constitutional claim, on the Constitution as fundamental law. It is a paradigmatic contemporary example of this category of constitutional law for citizens, one that reaches back past the roots of the American Revolution and... 2019 Most Relevant
Kathrine Gutierrez KEEPING SPEECH CHEAP: THE PROGRESSIVE CASE FOR A FREE INTERNET 67 UCLA Law Review Discourse 72 (2019) In Can Free Speech Be Progressive?, Louis Michael Seidman claims that cheap speech, like that found on Twitter, is not really cheap, and is not helpful to progressives--because it relies too heavily on capital. In the era of #metoo and #blacklivesmatter, it seems that Seidman is wrong about cheap speech. Cheap speech exists, and it is associated... 2019 Most Relevant
Helen E. White MAKING BLACK LIVES MATTER: PROPERLY VALUING THE RIGHTS OF THE MARGINALIZED IN CONSTITUTIONAL TORTS 128 Yale Law Journal 1742 (April, 2019) Black lives are systematically undervalued by constitutional enforcement remedies. Section 1983 adopts, wholesale, the damages scheme from torts, which not only permits, but encourages, the consideration of race and gender to calculate actuarially accurate damages figures. Given that Blacks earn seventy-five percent of what white men earn on... 2019 Most Relevant
Megan Ming Francis THE PRICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS: BLACK LIVES, WHITE FUNDING, AND MOVEMENT CAPTURE 53 Law and Society Review 275 (March, 2019) What influence do funders have on the development of civil rights legal mobilization? Fundraising is critical to the creation, operation, and survival of rights organizations. Yet, despite the importance of funding, there is little systematic attention in the law and social movements and cause lawyering literatures on the relationship between... 2019 Most Relevant
Megan Ming Francis THE PRICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS: BLACK LIVES, WHITE FUNDING, AND MOVEMENT CAPTURE 53 Law and Society Review 275 (March, 2019) What influence do funders have on the development of civil rights legal mobilization? Fundraising is critical to the creation, operation, and survival of rights organizations. Yet, despite the importance of funding, there is little systematic attention in the law and social movements and cause lawyering literatures on the relationship between... 2019 Most Relevant
Amna Toor "OUR IDENTITY IS OFTEN WHAT'S TRIGGERING SURVEILLANCE": HOW GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE OF #BLACKLIVESMATTER VIOLATES THE FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION 44 Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal 286 (2018) I. INTRODUCTION: Birth of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement-- Formation of a Social Movement and a Target of Government Surveillance. 287 II. BACKGROUND: Revisiting the Past & Joining the Future - Tracing Surveillance from Slavery to COINTELPRO to the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. 294 III: Finding Association: Unraveling the First Amendment Freedom of... 2018 Most Relevant
Raja Staggers-Hakim, PhD, MPH BLACK LIVES MATTER, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND HEALTH INEQUITIES 40 Western New England Law Review 447 (2018) As a social justice and civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter (BLM) emerged out of state sanctioned violence against African-Americans. With police violence as the backdrop, the movement recognizes all forms of violence and oppression that unfairly target Black Americans. A Vision for Black Lives has called for the United States government to... 2018 Most Relevant
Raja Staggers-Hakim, PhD, MPH BLACK LIVES MATTER, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND HEALTH INEQUITIES 40 Western New England Law Review 447 (2018) As a social justice and civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter (BLM) emerged out of state sanctioned violence against African-Americans. With police violence as the backdrop, the movement recognizes all forms of violence and oppression that unfairly target Black Americans. A Vision for Black Lives has called for the United States government to... 2018 Most Relevant
Dr. Bridgette Baldwin BLACK, WHITE, AND BLUE: BIAS, PROFILING, AND POLICING IN THE AGE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER 40 Western New England Law Review 431 (2018) Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Benjamin Spock On July 17, 2014, in Staten Island, New York, Eric Garner lost his life to an illegal chokehold at the hands of police officer Daniel Pantaleo. With his last words, Garner uttered the... 2018 Most Relevant
Dr. Bridgette Baldwin BLACK, WHITE, AND BLUE: BIAS, PROFILING, AND POLICING IN THE AGE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER 40 Western New England Law Review 431 (2018) Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Benjamin Spock On July 17, 2014, in Staten Island, New York, Eric Garner lost his life to an illegal chokehold at the hands of police officer Daniel Pantaleo. With his last words, Garner uttered the... 2018 Most Relevant
Twila L. Perry CONSCIOUS AND STRATEGIC REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE: PRINCE, MUSIC, BLACK LIVES, AND RACE SCHOLARSHIP 27 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 549 (Spring, 2018) Prince has often been described in the media as an artist who transcended barriers of race, gender and music genre. However, the context of race has received much less attention than the contexts of gender and music. Although discussions of Prince in the media have seldom focused on his racial identity as an African-American, an examination of... 2018 Most Relevant
Twila L. Perry CONSCIOUS AND STRATEGIC REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE: PRINCE, MUSIC, BLACK LIVES, AND RACE SCHOLARSHIP 27 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 549 (Spring, 2018) Prince has often been described in the media as an artist who transcended barriers of race, gender and music genre. However, the context of race has received much less attention than the contexts of gender and music. Although discussions of Prince in the media have seldom focused on his racial identity as an African-American, an examination of... 2018 Most Relevant
Bruce Miller CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE CONSTITUTION? 40 Western New England Law Review 459 (2018) The question is, of course, a provocation. If read rhetorically, it lends itself (too) easily to equally categorical, opposing answers: of course black lives don't matter to the Constitution's infamous three-fifths clause, its protection of property interests in escaped enslaved people, and its recognition of the states' power to control... 2018 Most Relevant
Bruce Miller CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE CONSTITUTION? 40 Western New England Law Review 459 (2018) The question is, of course, a provocation. If read rhetorically, it lends itself (too) easily to equally categorical, opposing answers: of course black lives don't matter to the Constitution's infamous three-fifths clause, its protection of property interests in escaped enslaved people, and its recognition of the states' power to control... 2018 Most Relevant
Marjorie Johnson, J.D. DISCRIMINATION-RACE-S.D. IND.: WHITE MANAGER FIRED AFTER CRITICAL 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' FACEBOOK POST CAN PURSUE RACE DISCRIMINATION AND REPRISAL CLAIMS 2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 2015993 (May 1, 2018) A white bank manager who was demoted and then fired after posting a message on his Facebook feed that was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement plausibly alleged Title VII claims of race discrimination and retaliation, held a federal district court in Indiana, given his purported exemplary work performance and the fact that African-American... 2018 Most Relevant
Marjorie Johnson, J.D. DISCRIMINATION-RACE-S.D. IND.: WHITE MANAGER FIRED AFTER CRITICAL 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' FACEBOOK POST CAN PURSUE RACE DISCRIMINATION AND REPRISAL CLAIMS 2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 2015993 (May 1, 2018) A white bank manager who was demoted and then fired after posting a message on his Facebook feed that was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement plausibly alleged Title VII claims of race discrimination and retaliation, held a federal district court in Indiana, given his purported exemplary work performance and the fact that African-American... 2018 Most Relevant
Marjorie Johnson, J.D. DISCRIMINATION-RACE-W.D.N.C.: EMPLOYEE CALLED 'RACIST' AFTER FACEBOOK RANT ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER CAN'T ADVANCE RACE, DEFAMATION CLAIMS 2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 948039 (February 20, 2018) Coworkers' comments calling an airline employee racist following her controversial Facebook posts regarding the Black Lives Matter movement did not create an actionable hostile work environment since they were neither race-based nor sufficiently severe or pervasive. Granting the defendants' partial motion to dismiss, a federal court in North... 2018 Most Relevant
Marjorie Johnson, J.D. DISCRIMINATION-RACE-W.D.N.C.: EMPLOYEE CALLED 'RACIST' AFTER FACEBOOK RANT ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER CAN'T ADVANCE RACE, DEFAMATION CLAIMS 2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 948039 (February 20, 2018) Coworkers' comments calling an airline employee racist following her controversial Facebook posts regarding the Black Lives Matter movement did not create an actionable hostile work environment since they were neither race-based nor sufficiently severe or pervasive. Granting the defendants' partial motion to dismiss, a federal court in North... 2018 Most Relevant
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