Black Lives Matter Grassroots has the people with us. All 26 chartered chapters of Black Lives Matter continue to do meaningful and impactful work as outlined in the 2021 Action Report. Over a dozen families of those killed by police stood with Black Lives Matter Grassroots at our press conference announcing our fight for the soul of #BlackLivesMatter, along with community organizers from around the world. More than one hundred families and globally-recognized movement workers have signed on to a letter demanding the resignation of Shalomyah Bowers from the BLM Global Network Foundation
Recent Posts
Black Lives Matter-California Statement on Governor Gavin Newsom Signing Anti-Labor, Islamophobic, Fake Civil Rights Act AB 715
Black Lives Matter – California and each of the state’s eight chapters condemn the passage by the state legislature and signing into law by Governor Gavin Newsom of the unconstitutional and undemocratic bill AB 715 and its weak companion legislation, SB 48.
Honoring Assata Olugbala Shakur
The United States government cornered her, framed her, caged her, made her a fugitive, then
named her a terrorist…their insidious lies woven from the same thread used to hunt Mama Harriet, to sever Nat Turner’s head and place on a stake, to rape our grandmothers, and to lynch
our grandfathers.
Trump’s Racist Police Occupation of Black Cities: The People Must Fight Back
The occupation of Washington, DC by militarized troops at the behest of a racist, fascist Trump regime is the full-on declaration of war on Black people in America. While some “Black faces in high places” are complicit, becoming proxies for the colonizer, it is ultimately the power of the people that will defeat the oppressor. In DC, this is the long-held work of the #FreeDC movement and Black Washingtonians who have always resisted, never submitting to their own oppression.
