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Helm, the so-called cofounder and core organizer of Black Lives Matter Louisville, explained in an article published at Leoweekly.com the things she says need to change.

White people, if you dont have any descendants, will your property to a black or brown family. Preferably one that lives in generational poverty, Helm writes in an article titled White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader.

White people are asked, Give up the home you own to a black or brown family, pass on anyinherited property to a black or brown family, or re-budget your monthly so you can donate to black funds for land purchasing.

White women, especially, are urged to get a racist fired or get your boss fired cause they racist too, Helms writes.

She concludes, Commit to two things: Fighting white supremacy where and how you can (this doesnt mean taking up knitting, unless youre making scarves for black and brown kids in need), and funding black and brown people and their work.

During a press conference in New York City last Tuesday, President Donald Trumpcondemned the neo-Nazis and white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville.

Ive condemned neo-Nazis. Ive condemned many different groups, Trump said before calling the man who rammed a car intocounter-protesters andkilled a womana disgrace and a horrible murderer.

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Patrisse Cullors one of the three original founders of Black Lives Matter was just nine years old when white Los Angeles Police Department officers were acquitted for beating Rodney King despite the clear videotape evidence. Patrisse, a Los Angeles native, watched black people take to the streets to scream the language of the unheard. Where others saw a riot, she saw an uprising.

"I hear stories about folks in New York...coordinating their own protests around Rodney King. I hear stories about people coordinating their own conversations and protests in Canada." She's right: In 1992, I was also nine years old, but I was in Canada, witnessing a black uprising in Toronto on Yonge Street, which took place just several days after the uprising in her home city.

Patrisse's ability to see hope amid chaos is what makes her a brilliant strategist and a courageous activist. She's now an author awaiting the release of her book, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir . As Black Lives Matter celebrates its four-year anniversary, new threats and challenges have appeared on the horizon, but Patrisse is no stranger to overcoming struggles and breaking new ground. She shared her goals, fears, and what's next for the movement with Teen Vogue .

Teen Vogue : What was your life like before activism?

Patrisse Cullors : I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison. I was trying to navigate "What does that mean about my life?" and "What does that mean about the world?"

TV : Black Lives Matter really took off with the Freedom Ride to Ferguson after Michael Brown was killed. What was the biggest immediate challenge you faced as attention to your organization grew?

PC : The first challenge was making sure that people knew who actually were the creators of Black Lives Matter pushing back against our own erasure. I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor...so strongly until the creation of Black Lives Matter.

TV : Many people including black people say "Black Lives Matter doesn't do enough to speak about intraracial violence." What do you say to that?

PC : Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just false . But black folks fight the hardest for our communities. Before governments do, before other people do, we're the first ones to show up. We are the first ones to fight for our lives.

TV : BLM has been called a terror group. How did that make you feel?

PC : When I first heard that we were being labeled a terrorist group , I was taken aback. Then I looked back in history: Angela Davis was called a terrorist; Assata Shakur is on America's Most Wanted list. This is what comes with the territory of fighting for our freedom.

TV : Those are people who had to leave everything behind and had to go to Grenada and Cuba, respectively, to get away from their country. You went from one day creating a hashtag to being in that conversation how did that personally impact you?

PC : It's scary. There are many times where I've reconsidered if this country is safe for me and my new family. It's sobering. When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, "Black lives matter."

TV : As we look forward to 2020, are there any mayors, senators, or congresspeople that appear to you to be serious about fighting white supremacy and enacting real reform of America's justice system?

PC : Chokwe Antar Lumumba in Jackson, Mississippi. Stacey Abrams , who will hopefully be the governor of Georgia. Nikkita Oliver didn't make it to be mayor of Seattle, but I followed her campaign closely, and I was really impressed by it.

TV : Would you like to see Black Lives Matter become a political party?

PC : It's premature for us to say that. I think what we do very well is developing new leaders and shifting culture. We created Black Lives Matter in the middle of an Obama presidency, when people didn't want to talk about race because they thought it was over white people in particular. We brought the conversation back up and said, "Actually, no, racism is well and alive. Look." We forced folks to look at the Democratic party as a party that has historically said it's on the side of black people but instead it hasn't been, and the policies have shown that.

TV : Any thoughts on a 2020 run from Senator Kamala Harris of California?

PC : I really appreciate Kamala and the work that she has done in backing Black Lives Matter. She has never strayed away from shoutin' us out and callin' us out in a loving and powerful way. I also think it's premature to put her out as a ticket for 2020.

TV : As Black Lives Matter celebrates its fourth anniversary, what makes you most proud?

PC : I am so proud that BLM has grown into a 40-chapter network across the globe. We have chapters in U.S. and Canada; we have chapters in the United Kingdom. We have people using Black Lives Matter in Australia. We have people using Black Lives Matter in South Africa and Brazil. I'm proud of the work that we've really been able to launch domestically but also globally, and there have been so many victories that we've been able to garner. I think the work of Black Lives Matter is timeless.

TV : What is your relationship with other activists who are in the spotlight?

PC : It's been challenging. It's less about [particular] activists, and more about patriarchy and what it does to our relationships to men, women, trans people. I think we live in a society that supports men and their work more often than it supports women or trans people in their work. It is not my job to fight with other black people; it's my job to fight with the state, and so I choose my battles. But patriarchy has made it really challenging to form relationships with other, male activists.

TV : So what can we expect from your memoir?

PC : I'm talking about what it means to grow up in the middle of the war on drugs and the war on gangs, and what led me personally to end up in this movement. What I tried to do is tell my story and how that story directly relates to the policies that, in a lot of ways, this government is trying to re-create and resurrect, and the impact that has on a young black girl. There aren't many stories of young black girls and our relationships to overpolicing and to overincarceration.

TV : What is the future of activism?

PC : We are tired of voting for people that don't represent us. The future of activism is in building political power, but I don't think we're naive about what that means. Part of what it means to build political power is to build it inside a larger movement, and so I think that's what you're gonna see from folks across our movement. And someone who is doing that really amazingly, who I always want to uplift, is Jessica Byrd from Three Point Strategies . She is a black woman [who has been] doing electoral work, and now that our movement is pivoting and seeing electoral work as another part of our work, she is someone that we've been utilizing as a resource day in and day out for these last several months.

TV : And what is the future for you, Patrisse?

PC : I'm in this work forever. This is where I've been, so I'm not going nowhere. My job, as I get older, is to develop new leaders and make way and space for new voices to help people.

I don't talk about it a lot I'm an artist. I use art and culture to talk about and build resilience bases for black people to talk about the impact the country has had on us. And so continuing to make and build art. I see my book as an art project, as a way to tell a story in an innovative and creative way to get more people involved, to get more people to show up for this moment.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Calling for justice in the recent, police-involved shooting death of 30-year-old David Jones, a small group of Black Lives Matter protestors marched in the streets in front of the Bustleton home of the police officer who caused Jones untimely death.

The events unfolded at about 7 p.m. on Thursday, when a group of protestors began pasting wanted posters for Philadelphia Police officer Ryan Pownall on telephone poles near his home along Bridle Road in Northeast Philly.

The posters featured a photo of Pownall and claimed the officer was wanted by the people of Philadelphia for the murder of David Jones.

According to the police report on Jones death, he was fatally shot in the back by Pownall on June 8th after there was a scuffle over a gun in Jones' waistband.

Pownall had stopped Jones after seeing him riding a dirt bike near the intersection of Whitaker and Hunting Park Avenues in Juniata Park, notes the report. A witness to the shooting has said that he saw Jones' gun drop to the sidewalk and that Jones ran before Pownall shot the fleeing Jones fatally in the back.

On Thursday, Black Lives Matter organizer, Asa Khalif led a group of about ten protestors in chants of No justice, no peace, no racist police and We demand justice for David Jones, as police vehicles quickly filled the block.

It was mere moments after the protestors placed their first wanted poster before law enforcement officials arrived en masse, creating a line of officers along the sidewalk, separating protestors from the home they had targeted.

We want justice for his kids. We want justice for his family, shouted Khalif. We want justice or else we are going to keep going into your motherf***ing neighborhood.

During the protest, local residents emerged from their homes. Some confronted the protestors, with one man even attempting to throw several signs that read Black Lives Matter into a plastic garbage bag.

He shouted I saw trash and wanted to pick it up, when officers on the scene stopped him and walked the man back towards his home.

Though the event was mostly peaceful, at times protestors clashed with residents in prolonged shouting matches. Police on hand seemed content to monitor the situation and make sure to keep the parties separate.

When asked to discuss the police responce to the protest, officers on scene declined to comment to a Metro reporter.

At one point, someone in the crowd shouted that, if Khalif wanted to have his point heard, he should go directly to the mayors office.

Khalif replied that he had indeed done that.

In fact, he had, in recent weeks, stopped press conferences, marched on City Hall and stormed into the offices of the citys managing director, Michael DiBerardinis, calling for Pownall to be arrested for Jones shooting.

Khalif replied that they had decided to come to Pownalls home in a further effort to seek justice.

[Police] come into our communities and we are flipping the script. We are coming to your neighborhood, he said.

The investigation into Jones death is ongoing and is being handled by the Office of the Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

After about an hour, as the sun began to set, Khalif gathered his small group of activists and left for the evening.

Black lives matter also, said Khalif as he closed the rally. When you kill someone, you should go to jail.

No arrests were made.

Following the display, some locals seemed upset by the protest.

"This is a discgrace. Don't come to our neighborhood!" shounted one neighbor as Khalif's vehicle drove off. The man refused to share his name with a reporter.

Yet, others seemed to believe that it was everyones right to protest if they feel there has been an injustice.

Citing the fact that protestors promised to return to the neighborhood in the coming days, a neighbor of Pownalls asked to remain anonymous, but he said that he could understand the protestors motivations.

We live in a free country, so you should be able to voice your opinion, said the neighbor. But, my father was a cop and you show up at a guys house to express your opinion? I dont know Thats tough.

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SAVANNAH, Ga. After a deadly weekend of violence in Charlottesville, Savannahs Black Lives Matter chapter is currently preparing its response with sights sets on a local and national level.

The group says it is working on a six-week protest to affect change after what it says is injustice to society.

Anthony Smith is an Army veteran and member of BLM Savannah. He said Charlottesville was a turning point for action for himself and BLM.

It just wakes you up. You cant be complacent. You cant wait for good things to happen. You have to be the good things that happen, he said.

Sylvia Wells is a coordinator for the group. She says she is protesting to better her community and to be an example for her family. BLM Savannah, Wells says, is not a hate group but one that is based on understanding, conversation and education.

We dont want any violence, this is something that we stand for is peace, she said. [BLM Savannah] cant control who takes our name and they run with it with the things that they do but we are most certainly arent hateful. We love everybody.

Details are scarce on the protest, including a start date. The groups founder, Pastor Jomo Kenyatta Johnson is currently out-of-town conducting missions work. Johnson and Smith told WSAV there are plans to remove Confederate inspired monuments in Savannah, rename the Talmadge Memorial Bridge, and work towards to removal of President Trump and his cabinet.

The groups desire to remove the Confederate Memorial to the dead in Forsyth Park contradicts Mayor DeLoachs wishes to expand the story of memorial to be more inclusive.

Smith calls the memorial a slap in the face and says the call to preserve the monument is a way to romanticize history of the Civil War and the Confederacy.

BLM Savannah is currently working with other local organizations to organize and prepare for the protest. Smith told WSAV to expect BLM Savannah to be more visible while working peacefully to make a difference in the city and its criminal justice system, including working with law enforcement and elected city leaders.

Our goal is definitely to unify the city and to interface with our government in a way that creates long-lasting change from the top tiers of our government to the lowest individual in our society, he said.

Should law makers decide the statue stays in Forsyth Park, Smith says that while such a decision is not his intent, BLM members are not looking to respond by physically removing the memorial themselves.

Violence is violence. And that type of act enables violence, We cant use the tools of the enemy for our causes and pretend like the end justifies the means, he said.

Smith said anyone is welcome to join and converse with BLM Savannah. Ultimately, he is looking to make Savannah and the country a better place to call home for his children.

If were going to hand it to them in an as is fashion, then we maybe do a little bit more maintenance before the hand off, he said.

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In August 2014, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer fired six shots into Michael Brown, killing him. Locals swarmed the residential street where the 18-year-old's body lay for more than four hours. Brown's mother wailed at an officer who told her to settle down. A vigil became a protest, which became a battleground, which became history.

In Whose Streets?, filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis offer a definitive timeline of Ferguson and the movement it birthed. Eschewing narration or commentary, the documentary relies on the perspectives of the young black men and women drawn to revolt on West Florissant Avenue. We watch in real time as a community subjected to years of civil-rights abuses rises up. We watch store clerks, factory workers, and unemployed Saint Louisans become activists. It's an important film that chronicles the birth of the modern police-accountability movement, giving voice and credit to local Saint Louis activists who played big roles but don't have the name recognition of, say, DeRay McKesson.

Whose Streets? also hits theaters as we recoil from the white-supremacist violence that struck Charlottesville. The timing, of course, is coincidental. But reliving the summer of Ferguson after the terror of Charlottesville, I could not help but to make connections.

The day after Brown's death, a QuikTrip went ablaze. Whose Streets? shows us nightly new programs glued to the flames. Reporters wonder just when will violence the violence end? Cut to activists asking why burning property triggers more outrage than the death of an unarmed black man. "A building is a building," a protester named Kayla tells us. Given the circumstances, setting one on fire is "a revolutionary act." How ironic that rage-ignited fire also appeared in Charlottesville, burning from the tiki torches of white men yelling Nazi incantations? But the flames in Charlottesville could not be confused for symbols of rebellion under oppression. They served as instruments of terrorism.

Around the one-year anniversary of Brown's death, we see protesters climb a grassy hill onto the interstate highway. They link arms before a line of vehicles. One motorist loses her patience and slowly rolls her SUV through the human barrier, forcing protesters to unclasp their hands before she speeds off. No one gets hurt in the confrontation, but it's not a stretch to imagine the episode ending in tragedy. Just a little more pressure on the gas pedal, and Saint Louis could have seen carnage similar to the scene after James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car through a throng of counterprotesters in Charlottesville. Unlike the suspect Fields, who proudly expressed white-nationalist views on social media, we don't know what motivated this motorist to endanger lives.

Also unlike Ferguson, state agents did not inflict the deadly violence in Charlottesville. Still, our president effectively condoned the furious displays of white supremacy that led to the death of Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal. When Trump stood before the press in his Manhattan skyscraper and described the neo-Nazis who gathered in Charlottesville as "fine people," he explicitly took a side in direct opposition to the calls for racial justice that grew from Ferguson. When he derisively referred to counterprotesters as the "alt-left," he went one step further, villainizing citizens taking a stand against racism and hate.

Whose Streets? brings us intimate portrayals of activists who Trump might call "alt-left." Tory Russell, sitting in his living room, shows us his fingertip, still singed from a tear-gas canister. David Whitt, a Ferguson father and Copwatch recruiter, joins neighbors to release a flight of red balloons from the spot where Brown died. Brittany Ferrell and Alexis Templeton, who organized the highway action, get engaged at Saint Louis City Hall, their love born during the pursuit of justice.

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