Black Lives Matter activists spent the better part of 2015 and the beginning 2016 predicting ominously that it was going to be a hot-ass summer in these streets. But no one predicted what has transpired so far, and it’s testing the will of the movement when changes in policing have been slow.
By: Darren Sands
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Organizations in the Movement for Black Lives took part in actions around the country and abroad Thursday as part of #FreedomNow, a day of action planned in the wake of high-profile videos of police killing black men and police being targeted that drew the attention of President Obama and gripped the country.