August 31, 2016 by V Leigh

At Pretoria Girls High School, #SouthAfrica’s ‘Bornfree’ Population Still Isn’t Free

Pretoria Girls High and Lawson Brown High School pupils are fighting identity battles we long should have fought and won in a free SA.

— Khanyi Dhlomo (@KhanyiDhlomo) August 30, 2016

@zapiro @TimesLIVE on Pretoria Girls' High school's hair policy-https://t.co/YcTSD4lmEt pic.twitter.com/hMIcJAJGOT

— Zapiro(@zapiro) August 31, 2016

Please know Pretoria Girls High School are not just protesting about hair: https://t.co/MciDikKZFW pic.twitter.com/sYxqebDUaX

— ESSENCE (@Essence) August 31, 2016

At Pretoria Girls High School, #SouthAfrica’s ‘Bornfree’ Population Still Isn’t Free https://t.co/GIIyPzEksl via @BlackYouthProj

— Lamont Lilly (@LamontLilly) August 31, 2016

For Pretoria High School girls.
Lots of love and pride,
Your big sister from Nigeria. 💛 pic.twitter.com/l9V1NCJL1J

— IjeomaUmebinyuo(@ijeomaumebinyuo) August 31, 2016

August 24, 2016 by V Leigh

Newark cops w/loaded guns couldn’t tell difference between innocent 10-yr-old & a 20-yr-old rob suspect

This is Legend Preston.
He's 10.
In the 5th grade.

Looking for a 20 y/o man with DREADS police did this to him.https://t.co/NG9kKWy3xW

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) August 23, 2016

Police, in fact chased a ten year old playing with his ball. Had guns drawn on #LegendPreston Neighbors saved him. https://t.co/pRgoZWoKVT

— CeeCee (@khanknee) August 23, 2016

#Newark #NJ ofcs with guns chased this 10yo they claimed "fit the description" of this 20yo.https://t.co/sAzhUJtcpY pic.twitter.com/NZzdPEHwLT

— (((Heather ♿))) (@MissJupiter1957) August 23, 2016

Newark cops w/loaded guns couldn't tell difference between innocent 10-yr-old & a 20-yr-old rob suspect https://t.co/4TSKk8qkss @ShaunKing

— Jim Rich (@jimrichNYDN) August 23, 2016

June 7, 2016 by V Leigh

A group of white males saw #DayshenMcKenzie, began calling him the n-word, brandished a gun and started chasing him to his death.

#DayshenMcKenzie was racially terrorized until he was dead. No parent should have to process this kind of horror. pic.twitter.com/MmsdgtoG2Z

— Lizz Brown (@lizzzbrown) June 3, 2016

#DayshenMcKenzie was racially terrorized until he was dead.

He was 16 years old.

No One Has Been Charged. pic.twitter.com/b2R0GV5qNj

— Lizz Brown (@lizzzbrown) June 3, 2016

A group of white males saw #DayshenMcKenzie, began calling him the n-word, brandished a gun and started chasing him to his death.

— Lizz Brown (@lizzzbrown) June 3, 2016

NYPD eyes death of black teen Dayshen McKenzie as a possible hate crime https://t.co/dJUAVfkavp pic.twitter.com/Pe7HTL7zU7

— New York Post (@nypost) June 3, 2016

Dayshen Mckenzie died from an asthma attack after being chased by a racist mob.

He was only 16.https://t.co/QM6CiJ2uNr

— Fusion (@Fusion) June 3, 2016

May 2, 2016 by V Leigh

What Black Lives Matter Achieved in 2015

"Why bring race into this?"

—Ancient White Proverb

— Benjamin YoungSavage (@benjancewicz) May 1, 2016

Of 346 black people killed by police, only 2 cases have led to convictions. https://t.co/0WDlgUjXDN pic.twitter.com/eHJbQjhnox

— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) May 2, 2016

Fact: both cases where officers were convicted for killing someone in 2015 had video evidence.

— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) May 2, 2016

ICYMI:
San Francisco Hunger Strikers Enter Ninth Day to Protest Police Brutality Against Black and Brown Youths – https://t.co/eZg8r0k6nE

— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) April 30, 2016

Black Teen Confronts Officer Who Shot His Younger Brother While Holding A Toy Gun #Blacklivesmatter https://t.co/ZqO8cI6DzS

— TrueBlackNews (@trueblacknews) April 30, 2016

#Blacklivesmatter started as hashtag in response to police brutality & grew into one of most impactful civil rights https://t.co/Ghps7IKDL1

— CeeCee (@khanknee) April 28, 2016

April 28, 2016 by V Leigh

#DedricColvin After saying “It’s not real, it’s not real” 13yo CHILD shot by Baltimore plainclothes cop.

Disgusting. So many similarities to Tamir. (Young is Dedric's mother.)#DedricColvin pic.twitter.com/5NiBRn1k8p

— David Pontious (@DavidPontious) April 28, 2016

After saying "It's not real, it's not real" 13yo CHILD shot by Baltimore plainclothes cop. Was holding replica bbgun https://t.co/RkoPmDEiwz

— Joo-Hyun Kang (@JooHyun_Kang) April 28, 2016

So @BaltimorePolice fired bean bags at a white man with a bomb but a black boy with a toy got hit with live rounds. #DedricColvin #Fox45

— D (@Delo_Taylor) April 28, 2016

Any black child who encounters police knows their life is jeopardy. For #DedricColvin & others running is an act of self-preservation.

— D (@Delo_Taylor) April 28, 2016

April 26, 2016 by V Leigh

The Black Lives Matter Founders Are Among the World’s Greatest Leaders

Rian Brown on #TamirRice: "The next step for #BlackLivesMatter is to make sure these officers no longer have a job." pic.twitter.com/SR0JA8JYfk

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 26, 2016

We have seen White cops go free on most blatant murders ever filmed. This system meant to kill us. – RT @khanknee https://t.co/0wtFBDvGmb…

— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) April 26, 2016

“U.S. inequality so pervasive that poverty, homelessness, unemployment… have been normalized, obscured by rosy job reports.” @PenielJoseph

— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) April 23, 2016

.@KendrickLamar "should be applauded," writes a Black Lives Matter co-founder #TIME100 https://t.co/IuV1xkNf7B

— TIME.com (@TIME) April 21, 2016

How nonviolent resistance movements have shaped the 2016 elections https://t.co/ZyBVx8bopk

— Vox(@voxdotcom) April 19, 2016

From Jermaine Carby to Andrew Loku: a timeline of Black Lives Matter in Toronto https://t.co/C72i0kUs3q #toronto #GTA

— Toronto Star GTA (@StarGTANews) April 17, 2016

The Black Lives Matter Founders Are Among the World’s Greatest Leaders https://t.co/adCT7e0tfu

— arshadfilms(@arshadfilms) April 17, 2016

April 26, 2016 by V Leigh

Cleveland agrees to pay $6M to family of Tamir Rice

Tamir Rice's family just settled with the city of Cleveland for $6 millionhttps://t.co/RkGA3G34s4

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 25, 2016

Money can do a lot of things, but money can't buy back a 12yo child's soul or a mother's piece of mind. #TamirRice https://t.co/uqrqCgYrHK

— D (@Delo_Taylor) April 25, 2016

It's the sentence that has me shook.

“Under the terms of the settlement, the city does not admit wrongdoing in the shooting.”#TamirRice

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 25, 2016

My column from the last time I spent the day with #TamirRice's family, on the anniversary of his killing…https://t.co/iswxo5dlyw

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) April 25, 2016

Cleveland agrees to pay $6M to family of Tamir Rice https://t.co/jufeENmjQ0 pic.twitter.com/KSfvJl9eo7

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 25, 2016

March 19, 2016 by V Leigh

#JoseCruz

Mother wants answers in her son #JoseCruz's fatal shooting by off-duty #KillerCop https://t.co/Yx0vOIBAsf #16KBC https://t.co/hRvhfaFw3i

— MCTV (@MCTV419) March 15, 2016

It took two days of protests for the police to admit #JoseCruz, 16, was unarmed when they shot & killed him: https://t.co/I5vKwDKG3H

— Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) March 16, 2016

Officer Ken Johnson has been charged with the murder of teen #JoseCruz in Addison, TX. https://t.co/4gMTVbH4Zr via @nbcnews

— Voto Latino (@votolatino) March 18, 2016

Dallas teen Jose Cruz — killed by a Farmers Branch officer — remembered for humor and spirit https://t.co/p6L5G5qCmh pic.twitter.com/bMb2KGfi0r

— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) March 18, 2016

March 8, 2016 by V Leigh

Police Violence – More Questions than Answers

JanetCooksey mom of #QuintonioLegrier speaks against cop who murdered her son&suing son's estate Shame on killer cop pic.twitter.com/ZNxiMaSLgW

— SMIN Chicago (@StopMassIncChi) March 2, 2016

"The Chicago Police Dept admitted she was shot on accident as she answered her door." https://t.co/KGomCX33Kc #BettieJones #QuintonioLeGrier

— Change.org (@Change) February 25, 2016

Baltimore City Schools says video of officer slapping student happened late today. "Vigorously" under investigation pic.twitter.com/GW5OKeOPF2

— Christian Schaffer (@chrisfromabc2) March 2, 2016

Teenager Stabbed in California by IL Police Officer – For Speaking Arabic https://t.co/Om89B0vIC9 via @hatehurts_ pic.twitter.com/AwHy7wJVlH

— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) March 2, 2016

Please WATCH #VIDEO About 27 y/o #IndiaKager #NavyVet #KILLED by #VBPD #SWAT in front of her #BABY. > >… https://t.co/FVcKkUo0ZX

— #IndiaKager's Mother (@GinaBest) March 7, 2016

The NYPD has been sued for using military-grade sound cannons to disperse Black Lives Matter protesters https://t.co/fenqCLgQq9

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) March 7, 2016

There are still more questions than answers nearly two months after Gynnya McMillen's mysterious death: https://t.co/8w71en1EKs

— R.G. Dunlop (@rgdunlopjr) March 7, 2016

Patrick Ball measures undocumented police killings in the United States.https://t.co/IcwlHCm6SB pic.twitter.com/g0KXJnWR93

— Granta Magazine (@GrantaMag) March 4, 2016

March 2, 2016 by V Leigh

Definition: Islamophobia (or anti-Muslim sentiment) is the prejudice against, hatred towards, or fear of the religion of Islam or Muslims.

A yong NY Muslim women's touching, personal account of Islamophobia at her parents' convenience store https://t.co/aNmqN6KkvV @zainubamir

— Zia Haq (@ziahaq) February 18, 2016

As if this wasn't already painfully obvious: Islamophobia hurts Muslim women most. https://t.co/jDkhZfeXvm pic.twitter.com/rUUAUG2hT4

— Rachel Veroff (@rachel_veroff) February 18, 2016

Execution-style murders of Muslim-American men barely cause a ripple https://t.co/gYtXSK2P4o pic.twitter.com/jYCZWAdGJl

— AJE News (@AJENews) February 28, 2016

More than 50% hate crimes against Muslims go unreported. Powerful new video tackles Islamophobia pic.twitter.com/HKh8o3HNuW

— Umar Shafiq (@ushafiq1993) February 18, 2016

Execution-style murders of Muslim-American men barely cause a ripple https://t.co/gYtXSK2P4o pic.twitter.com/jYCZWAdGJl

— AJE News (@AJENews) February 28, 2016

Islamophobia is also bullying Muslim students pic.twitter.com/cA1FqgPS55

— Khaled Beydoun (@KhaledBeydoun) February 25, 2016

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