Black Lives Matter Archives

PROTESTERS DECRY NONPROFIT LAYOFFS; FOUNDERS RESPOND TO CLAIMS OF UNION-BUSTING, RACISM

“I don’t think we’re a racist organization. I just think the power structure, the culture, is made up of people who don’t look like me.”

JANE REGAN June 23, 2020

RALLY AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY SEEKS TO SEND MOMS TO MINNEAPOLIS FOR MOTHER’S DAY MARCH

“Mothers and families of victims of police violence took the stage to explain the pain inflicted upon them by cops who are supposed to protect them.”

BINJ ONLINE June 20, 2020

Black Trans Lives Matter rally in Boston

BOSTON TRANS RESISTANCE MARCH IS “MOST AUTHENTIC PRIDE IN 50 YEARS”

“Members of the Boston’s Transgender/Gender non-conforming communities are taking back our Pride. Since the 2016 election, we have had an additional layer of barriers added to our daily lives.”

KEIKO HIROMI June 15, 2020

Black Lives Matter rally against police brutality

MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS UNITE “AGAINST RACIST POLICE TERROR” IN BOSTON

Among the dozens of ongoing demonstrations since the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop, yesterday’s “United Against Racist Police Terror!” in Boston was a rather unique event.

KEIKO HIROMI June 8, 2020

Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library.

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN AN AGE OF EXISTENTIAL THREATS

IMAGE: Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library. This week, a reminder that politics is not a spectator sport. I was listening to a

JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2019

ONLY TIME AND TAPE WILL TELL

Will New Bedford finally find out what happened to Malcolm Gracia?

EOIN HIGGINS January 16, 2019

WE CAME, WE SAW, WE COVERED (A #FIGHTSUPREMACY COMPOSITE RETROSPECT)

Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian Between the protesters, the counterprotesters, the media, the cops, and a handful of trolls, countless stories unfolded in Boston last weekend. These are several we encountered… PHOTOS, WORDS, AND REPORTING BY SARAH BETANCOURT, BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ, CHRIS FARAONE, KORI FEENER, NATE HOMAN, ZACK HUFFMAN, DEREK

MULTIPLE AUTHORS August 22, 2017