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Aug

#StrikeForBlackLives

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I commend the players on the @Bucks for standing up for what they believe in, coaches like @DocRivers, and the @NBA and @WNBA for setting an example. It’s going to take all our institutions to stand up for our values. pic.twitter.com/rUGETgAt7P
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 27, 2020

NBA players are courageously on strike (withholding labor), NOT boycotting (withholding their $ /purchase). The diff is important bc it shows their power as *workers.*

The courage this takes is profound. WNBA organizing in this moment MUST be recognized too. #StrikeForBlackLives https://t.co/QfsJAHLVLx
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 27, 2020

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Why do the police decide that some threats must be extinguished, while other threats get defused? We know the answer. pic.twitter.com/3GpyT8zEhf
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 27, 2020

Ariel Atkins delivers a message for the @WashMystics players. pic.twitter.com/tz5ojpo30A
— WNBA (@WNBA) August 27, 2020

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.@E_Williams_1 of the @AtlantaDream reads a statement as a representative for all WNBA players. pic.twitter.com/Gb0fhYM8T9
— WNBA (@WNBA) August 27, 2020

.@Nnemkadi30 discusses the unity within the league and looking ahead. pic.twitter.com/eeYqWDrzLy
— WNBA (@WNBA) August 27, 2020

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United. pic.twitter.com/wRgXRHVUsA
— WNBA (@WNBA) August 27, 2020

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— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@naomiosaka) August 27, 2020

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Inter Miami and Atlanta United stand together in solidarity as they boycott their match tonight. pic.twitter.com/AuJDSbNvQ1
— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) August 27, 2020

The Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers have voted to boycott the rest of the playoffs and were the first two teams to exit the meeting, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) August 27, 2020

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“It is the young people leading the way and I applaud them.” @realchriswebber delivers a powerful message in support of the NBA players. pic.twitter.com/KVCUINw8Vx
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) August 26, 2020

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Today’s boycotts, anniversary of Kaepernick’s protest and it all hovering around the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is just some really, really, really heavy perspective. Injustice takes on so many forms with so many Black women and men fighting to tackle America’s sins.
— JustinTinsley (@JustinTinsley) August 26, 2020

On August 26, 2020, games and matches in four leagues were boycotted or postponed.

NBA
WNBA
MLB
MLS

An unprecedented day in sports history.
— ESPN (@espn) August 27, 2020

Jun

Let’s Get To Work

By Nerdy Wonka 114 Comments

I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real change––and pulled together some resources to help young activists sustain the momentum by channeling their energy into concrete action. https://t.co/jEczrOeFdv
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 1, 2020

Jun

“You Matter. Your Lives Matter. Your Dreams Matter”

By Nerdy Wonka 129 Comments

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In our @MBK_Alliance town hall yesterday, I mentioned James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. From 1962, it remains a seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers and relevant for understanding the pain and anger behind the protests. Excerpt: https://t.co/50F9ZP3JhQ
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 4, 2020

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Young Black men and women have always been at the forefront of progress. As @BarackObama said, "know that your lives matter, that your dreams matter." #ObamaTownHall pic.twitter.com/YQEM4fW0Py
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 3, 2020

"The way this young man died, watching the video, it made me so sad. It was so painful. It made me cry. I kept saying to myself, how many more? How many more young black men will be murdered? The madness must stop." — @RepJohnLewis on the death of George Floyd pic.twitter.com/tJ5mVfcmoZ
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) June 4, 2020

Jun

“I Know You Know That Black Lives Matter”

By Nerdy Wonka 125 Comments

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"George Floyd's life mattered and Breonna Taylor's life mattered and Philando Castile's life mattered and Tamir Rice's life mattered."

Duchess Meghan has shared a powerful video with @IHPandas Immaculate Heart High School’s class of 2020 for their graduation.#BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/BzUmfnKICb
— Omid Scobie (@scobie) June 4, 2020

👏"The. Only. Wrong. Thing. To. Say. Is. To. Say. Nothing"

Brilliant & powerful speech by Meghan Markle. I love how raw & open she is about her speech being picked apart but put others before her fear. My respect for Duchess of Sussex has gone up another notch #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/6Ik0UGn5kx
— Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) June 4, 2020

Jun

If You’re Not With/For Us, You’re Against Us

By Nerdy Wonka 119 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, Agitators, Ahmaud, Breonna, civil rights, Floyd, george, March, police brutality, protest, Protesters, Protesting, protestors, racism, racists, taylor, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

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In this video, a black woman picks up a brick and returns it to a car with white people and admonishes them not to give bricks to black people to throw so that black people will get in trouble with the police. https://t.co/ZFzAF8gye5
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 1, 2020

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What a moment on CNN. pic.twitter.com/T9XMzXmlVb
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 31, 2020

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Put this on the news. pic.twitter.com/YfXB2x6bcz
— Frosty (@FrostyTheSkid) May 30, 2020

What the media won’t show in Minneapolis. Free food, water and resources.

Community is a verb. pic.twitter.com/piKlEqun0t
— zellie (@zellieimani) May 30, 2020

May

The Cops Have Always Been The Violent Ones

By Nerdy Wonka 140 Comments

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Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/bW48imyt55
— Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020

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This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters anywhere near us- we all were wearing credentials and had cameras out. Our sound engineer was hit in the arm. #cbsnews pic.twitter.com/UAy7HYhGnL
— Michael George (@MikeGeorgeCBS) May 31, 2020

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I cannot believe what I just witnessed. They pulled up onto the square with a police siren on and did this. #Louisville pic.twitter.com/65o2lgZCJh
— Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) May 30, 2020

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May

Property Is Not More Valuable Than Black Lives

By Nerdy Wonka 312 Comments

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Spike Lee said that when Do The Right Thing came out, a lot of critics thought it irresponsible to show Mookie throw a trash can through the window of Sal's pizzeria bc it would encourage riots...but they had far less to say about the cops choking Radio Raheem to death 🤷🏿‍♂️
— The LeBron James of Pig Feet. (@GeeDee215) May 28, 2020

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This is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer talking about the history of racial terror lynchings of Black people and how some Black people responded, specifically protesting, looting, and rioting. This is from a documentary, “Heritage Of Slavery” (1968). pic.twitter.com/xelste3pPW
— The Funky Educator (@MrKinetik) May 28, 2020

They. Know. What. They've. Done. To. Us. https://t.co/MF87kbTeLN
— king crissle (@crissles) May 29, 2020