Across The Transatlantic: #BlackLivesMatter
Black Lives Matter
Moving Through the Transatlantic
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Our group’s project topic is the Black Lives Matter Movement. This is important to GHS 210: Freedom and Movement Across the Transatlantic, because we will be looking at how enslavement during the Transatlantic Slave trade has shaped biases and behaviors towards people of color within our society today. More specifically, this would include incarceration rates among people of color, police brutality, and overall violence. We believe the Black Lives Matter Movement is a political and social movement that fights against violence and fights for the rights of people of color. We aim to showcase the violence that people of color still face within our society today. People of color have been treated as property, and as if their lives are not valued since slavery, and this is an issue that is still prominent within our world today. Our project will take a deeper look into the events that led up to the BLM movement, how it is presented within our society today, and how it is presented throughout the world. This project is centered around the perspectives of people of color within our society today, and of the past. We want to see if the perspectives of people of color has evolved since slavery, or if it has taken a new form in within our society today.
Yeah... What They Said!
Let's Listen
Do extraordinary things to help address the horrific problems in American society that allow child trauma and violence to be so poorly managed.
Ian Manuel
...I suppose that very few people think about the fact that the institution of the prison has claimed a place at the very core of black history, particularly since the abolition of slavery. It has been a constant theme in the lives of black people in this country...
Angela Davis
The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not me.
Frederick Douglass
Enough is Enough
Our group has done extensive research on the Black Lives Matter movement and created three resources which can help you understand how this movement came to be and what it fights for:
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Story Map
Black Lives Matter Key Events Timeline
Enslavement in the Modern World Infographic
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All the resources listed above can be found by clicking the button below or in the "Across The World" tab at the top of the home page.
