We also know that the San Diego killers did not act in isolation, but in the context of a city, county, and country that has long criminalized people of color through so-called gang documentation and enhancements, white nativism, ICE raids, police violence, and racism and xenophobia writ large.
Charleston, SC – Black Lives Matter Grassroots stands in full solidarity with the Charleston Reparations Taskforce and the Gullah Geechee community in demanding the immediate transfer of over 7,000 acres of plantation land, including Middleton Place, Boone Hall, and Magnolia Plantation, to permanent Gullah Geechee stewardship.
We are grateful for the courage, vision, sacrifice, and power of Black Lives Matter Grassroots Twin Cities lead Chauntyll Allen, courageous comrade Nekima Levy Armstrong, and other principled organizers for their righteous resistance to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) federal invasion and fascist repression in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Rather than submitting to an unparalleled evil that murders mothers in their own vehicles, explodes chemical weapons upon infants, kidnaps and imprisons preschoolers, brutalizes children, separates families, and terrorizes communities, grassroots organizers in the Twin Cities are putting their own bodies, freedom and livelihood on the line to secure community.
Black Lives Matter Grassroots vehemently condemns the United States’ military strikes on Venezuela, the unlawful kidnapping of President Nicholás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and the threats against Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and the Venezuelan people. These actions have brought death and injury to civilians, desecrated the land and seas, and violated the nation’s sovereignty. Not only are these actions illegal according to international law and the United States Constitution, we know these to be war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Black Lives Matter Grassroots is unaffiliated with the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation which is reportedly under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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.
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.
Juneteenth is OUR BLACK JUBILEE
June 19, 1865 marks the day that our enslaved Ancestors in Texas received word that our generations of struggle to free ourselves toppled legal chattel slavery (at least in the current form). On this date our grandmothers’ grandmothers and our grandfathers’ grandfathers turned to each other in love and power to celebrate our beauty, our humanity, and divinity…despite an entire infrastructure and economy that tried to turn us into property.
On February 10th, Black Lives Matter Grassroots released our statement vehemently opposing Trump’s planned ICE raids. With the fascist raids now in full swing, let us be clear: abolishing ICE must be part of the Black liberation agenda. The blatant attacks on migrant communities are absolutely a Black issue. We assert this position on both moral and strategic grounds.
May is not just another month on the calendar—it is a sacred time of reckoning, remembrance, and relentless resistance. This May, we carry the weight of history on our shoulders as we honor the lives stolen by white supremacist violence, celebrate the revolutionary legacy of our ancestors, and reaffirm our commitment to the fight for Black liberation.
“BLM Grassroots, Local Organizers, Justice Families, and Student Activists Warn of Alarming Trend of Black Students at Predominantly White Institutions BeingTargeted by White Supremacists and Cops.”
Black Lives Matter Grassroots stands unwaveringly with the Palestinian people, and students around the world who dare to put their bodies and futures on the line to demand a U.S. arms embargo against Israel and a #FreePalestine.
Wilson’s family along with BLM Los Angeles, BLM California, and BLM Grassroots have been fighting and lobbying for policy changes and laws that would help prevent families in the future from suffering as they did when officials failed to notify them of their loved ones death for 4 days.
The fascist capture of Mahmoud Khalil, carried out by the white-supremacist state in collusion with Columbia University, is meant to serve as a threat to all organizers of conscience, especially those who are Palestinian or carry otherwise marginalized identities.
Black Lives Matter Grassroots is proud to announce the launch of the “Black Women Are Divine” (BWAD) campaign for March 2025, a month-long celebration dedicated to honoring the divinity, strength, and resilience of Black women. This year’s campaign will spotlight 31 remarkable Black women from around the globe, each recognized for their invaluable contributions to their communities and beyond.
Donald Trump has declared war on the people. In the few weeks since his inauguration, we have witnessed horrifying stories of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids carried out under his administration’s orders to round up undocumented people. These raids have taken place in schools, at public transit stops, in grocery stores, and at homes – spaces where we should all be free and safe.
On the last Tuesday of each month, Black Long Beach residents gather at a local art gallery to discuss housing policies, build community and empower one another.
On May 1, 2023 #JordanNeely was lynched in broad daylight for the crime of being Black, unhoused, & possibly suffering from mental illness by a white supremacist vigilante named Daniel Penny…
Our flight has never been dependent on who occupies the White House. It is driven by our secret duty in our deep commitment to justice and the liberation of our people.
Marcellus Williams’ execution is nothing short of a modern-day lynching, carried out under the guise of justice, but rooted deeply in the same systems of oppression that have brutalized Black people for centuries. This was not just a man being put to death—it was the latest chapter in America’s long and bloodstained history of state-sanctioned violence against Black bodies.
Black Lives Matter Grassroots stands unwaveringly with the Palestinian people, and students around the world who dare to put their bodies and futures on the line to demand a U.S. arms embargo against Israel and a #FreePalestine.
Black Lives Matter Grassroots is demanding the passage of meaningful legislation and is standing with her family in calling for justice for Sonya Massey. Massey, a 36-year old Black mother of two had her life stolen by Sangamon County sheriff’s deputies after she called 911 for help when she believed a prowler was stalking her home.
Join BLM Grassroots Chapters across the country celebrate Women’s History month.
Mainstream media’s reports on the story fail the fact-check test as Black Lives Matter Grassroots has a policy of never endorsing candidates and has no Rhode Island Chapter.
All over the state, symbolic waters are also on the rise, and marginalized Gen Z’ers are struggling to keep their heads above it. As DeSantis continues to expand his “war on wokeness” for his presidential bid, his policies are devastating marginalized communities, leaving many young people reeling as they try to survive in the state they call home
As the world is faced with deep questions about self-determination, as we all desire and pray for a world of peace,, we must stand unwaveringly on the side of the oppressed. When a people have been subject to decades of apartheid and unimaginable violence, their resistance must not be condemned, but understood as a desperate act of self-defense.
They want to kill us because we are a movement driven by people who are unbought and unbossed.
One year after 15-year-old Jaheim McMillan was shot and killed by a Gulfport police officer, his mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit for $10 billion against the City of Gulfport and the officer who court documents say shot McMillan.
In February 2023, a Grand Jury cleared the officer of wrongdoing in the shooting, finding no criminal conduct on his behalf.
In the decade since it began, #BlackLivesMatter has shifted the nation’s collective consciousness, whether we wanted it shifted or not.
Every generation of Americans lives through a moment that captures history in hindsight, a moment so indelible—the JFK assassination, 9/11—people can describe exactly where they were and what they were doing when it happened.
Melina Abdullah remembers exactly what her brother said as George Zimmerman was being tried for the murder of Trayvon Martin.
“He’s getting off and they’re giving him his gun back.”
Abdullah, like many, said she felt “jarred and outraged” following Zimmerman’s acquittal on July 13, 2013. It was a verdict that hit close to home.
The People’s Justice Festival, July 15, 2023
On a hot summer Saturday this past week, Black Lives Matter celebrated its tenth anniversary with a sprawling celebration in the Leimert Park Village, now called AfricaTown, in Central Los Angeles.
The simulcast is from 12:00 – 6:00 PM on the Black Brilliance Stage!
On Saturday July 15, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles celebrated its 10th anniversary with the People’s Justice Festival in Leimert Park.
According to BLMLA organizers, the advocacy group was “birthed July 13, 2013 in Leimert Park to build ‘a movement, not a moment’ to end state-sanctioned violence against Black people in the wake of the acquittal of #TrayvonMartin’s murderer.”
A decade ago, following George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the homicide of Trayvon Martin, the first protest in the name of BLM took to the streets of Los Angeles
On July 13, 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement was born in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who mercilessly stole the life of Trayvon Martin. For the last 10 years, we have unceasingly committed ourselves to doing the work that uplifts the names of those stolen by white-supremacy and police violence.
“We are stunned and dismayed by the court ruling…Still, the work continues.”
-Dr. Melina Abdullah, Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter Grassroots
When thinking of Andrea Ritchie a string of power words come to mind to describe an ordinary person activated by injustice. Words like unapologetic, commitment, liberation, love, transformation, determination, unwavering, tireless, purpose, abolition and relentless. Compassion, empathy, and humility ring true as well for this Black lesbian, immigrant, and survivor whose body of work defines a frame of transformative love.
In a word, Rev. Dr. Thema Bryant is a healer. She is a gifted poet, storyteller, dancer, scholar, psychologist, author, mother and ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Karlene Griffiths Sekou is a Black Lives Matter organizer, intellectual, spiritualist, and mama. She has worked for more than two decades centering Black public health. When masses of Black people took to the streets in Ferguson, Missouri after the murder of #MichaelBrown she was among them and her life pivoted to more deeply commit to direct action which would usher in Black liberation, especially centering spiritual work and tools.
BLM Grassroots, Mississippi Organizers, and the family of 15-year old #JAHEIMMCMILLAN demand federal prosecution after the grand jury fails to indict the officer.
We grieve alongside the family and loved ones of Tyre Nichols. There is no such thing as justice for Tyre because justice would mean that he was still here to raise his young child, share beautiful photographs, ride his skateboard, love on his parents, and step into his fullest self.
The family of #KeenanAnderson continues to grieve and fight after their loved one was murdered after LAPD tasered him 6 times in about 40 seconds. Keenan was seeking help after an auto accident and it ended in his death. This is unacceptable.
Protesters have been trying to disrupt city council meetings since the city hall racism scandal broke, saying de León and Cedillo should resign before the city conducts its business. Krekorian had previously allowed the couple of dozen protesters to chant, shout and slap benches while the council members continued with the meeting, with council members wearing earphones to hear.
Protesters have set up an encampment outside City Councilmember Kevin de León’s home for several days demanding he resign after racist comments he made went public in a leaked audio file that has shaken Los Angeles and the country was highlighted in the article below.
On Monday, Kanye West and Candace Owens wore shirts emblazoned with the words ‘White Lives Matter’ at the YZY Season 9 Presentation in Paris. The stunt was a clear affront to Black Lives Matter, which has been measured as the largest racial justice movement in history.
Black Lives Matter was birthed in 2013 in response to George Zimmerman’s acquittal for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The boots-on-the-ground have always been everyday people committed to ending state-sanctioned violence against Black people. We took to the streets, demanded policy change, shifted narratives, and built a mass movement – then and now – to build a world where all of our people can live and walk freely.
The Black Lives Matter Grassroots responds to Kanye West’s White Liver Matter Shirt. The details of the incident are highlighted below
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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.
On Thursday, Sep. 22, in response to the ruling, Black Lives Matter Grassroots, which has been supporting the Joseph family since 2015, calls to end qualified immunity, the legal doctrine which shields law enforcement officers from being held accountable.
Minneapolis officers prosecuted, local reforms adopted in some states, but national overhaul of policing falls short.
Dr. Melina Abdullah, Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots offers painful revelations steeped in facts and uncomfortable truths.
The street protests that flooded American cities have largely ended, and a new administration is settling in in Washington, but the Black Lives Matter movement that regained national attention last summer in response to a series of police killings last summer has not gone away.
What started as a poignant hashtag has come to define a generation. In seven years, Black Lives Matter has become a multichapter organization that has changed the very framework with which the nation talks about race.
Black Lives Matter has always been more of a human rights movement rather than a civil rights movement. BLM’s focus has been less about changing specific laws and more about fighting for a fundamental reordering of society wherein Black lives are free from systematic dehumanization. Still, the movement’s measurable impact on the political and legal landscape is undeniable.
