National “Justice Families” and Black Lives Matter Grassroots Join NAACP Lubbock Branch and Lubbock Coalition for Black Democrats to Support Family of #ErskinJenkins in Call for Justice
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.
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.
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.
On Saturday, July 26, 2025, the “Handala” Freedom Flotilla, with an international delegation of 19 humanitarians and 2 journalists, was illegally and unjustly kidnapped by Israel. Among the humanitarians was courageous labor leader, beloved comrade in Black organizing, and founder of the Amazon Labor Union, Chris Smalls.
Leimert Park, Los Angeles – Black Lives Matter Grassroots now has fifty-one chapters, including three led by imprisoned folks and one in Stockholm, Sweden. The now-international organization, whose mission is to end state-sanctioned violence, convened this past weekend to celebrate twelve years since the founding of the birth of one of the largest racial justice movements in the history of the world and the very first Black Lives Matter chapter on this same spot, Leimert Park (aka Africa Town), the heart of Black Los Angeles. The organization was sprung into being after the murderer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was acquitted by a legal system that never served Black people.
As we continue the path ahead together, please stay plugged in with us at www.blmgrassroots.org and on social media at @blmgrassroots.
