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Have you seen it?

According to the laws of physics and the principles of nature, nothing disappears into thin air, so it must be around here somewhere. It was too big and loud to fall between the couch cushions or hide in the closet, so someone must have stolen it. Someone must have found a way to silence it. I know there were a lot of people who wished it would evaporate into the ether or slowly fizzle out, but Im sure it cant be all gone.

What happened to Black Lives Matter?

Barely a year ago, #BlackLivesMatter was on the tip of almost every tongue in the country. It caused such a commotion that America had no choice but to take notice. Whether they supported it or hated it, everyone had an opinion of it. It led the evening news. It popped up in every social media feed. They argued about it on SportsCenter. Have you seen it lately? I know it hasnt gone anywhere.

Dont reduce its existence to a simple hashtag, because it was more than that. It was a living, breathing thing. Ive seen it with my own eyes. I saw it at football games kneeling during the national anthem. I saw it change the entire municipal structure of the city of Ferguson, Mo. I watched it strut onstage at halftime of the Super Bowl. It strong-armed police departments into buying body cameras. It showed up at presidential debates and awards shows. It fueled conversations in every corner of the country about how America treated black bodies.

But lately, my friends dont talk about it as much. Is it dead? Is it asleep? Have we lost interest? Why is it so quiet? Where did it go?

Maybe it was the propaganda.

As soon as the movement began, there also arose a pushback from people on the other side. They ignored the statistics and reminded us to stop resisting. They tried to transform conversations about police brutality into distracting discussions about black-on-black crime. They ginned up fear with slick-talking police-union lawyers and iron-fisted governors. They convinced juries that trying to breathe while being choked to death was resisting, and grabbing a gun to chase down a teenager with Skittles in his pocket was standing your ground.

Perhaps it is hiding because of how they demonized it.

They fooled white America that Black Lives Matter was a hate group, just as they convinced it that the civil rights movement was fueled by communism. They successfully brainwashed the country into believing that BLM was anti-cop, even when one of the movements founders said it wasnt. They branded it as violent because burning and looting broke out during some demonstrations, like the violence that broke out during the inauguration, after the World Series or during Donald Trump rallies. Both the people who disparage Black Lives Matter and those reluctant to jump on board should remember one important fact:

There has never been a black movement in the history of America that white people found acceptable. Not the abolitionist movement. Not the black power movement. Not even the civil rights movement. Their egos and sense of privilege make them want to stomp out anything that doesnt include or directly benefit them. Thats why they want to replace the name with All Lives Matter. Because of their innate subconscious supremacy, they cant fathom that Black Lives Matter doesnt mean only black lives matter, or black lives matter more. They cant fathom the idea that it has nothing to do with (or against) them. That it is a simple, uncomplicated affirmation to ourselves and a reminder to the world.

Black lives matter.

Just matter.

Maybe the politicians killed it.

Theyre making protests illegal now. Lawmakers in Minnesota are advancing a bill that would make protesters pay for policing. The state of North Dakota wants to make it OK (you might not believe this) for drivers to run over protesters with their cars. But the state of Washington has the best one: They want to increase the penalty for protesting by rebranding it as economic terrorism. They seem to be trolling BLM when states like Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and even California have passed or are considering Blue Lives Matter bills that make attacks on police a hate crime.

Oh, wait. I know what happened to Black Lives Matter.

We still have the same sentiments, but our attention spans are too short to box with the white revolution-crushing gods. Even though 29 black men have already been killed by police this year. Even though our esteemed Velveeta president signed three law and order executive orders protecting police. Even though our new attorney general has a history of anti-black racism and opposes almost every move by the Justice Departments Civil Rights Division.

We dropped #BlackLivesMatter when internet sites and cable news shows stopped splashing pornographic images of dead black boys and replaced them with stories of pussy grabbing and immigrant bans. We watered it down by believing that changing profile pictures or speaking out on Twitter was actual resistance. We muted it because we were with her who once said superpredator.

We were distracted by being outraged at a neon-orange douchebag in a hairpiece. Our arms were tired from raising our fists. Our throats were sore. We had already Instagrammed selfies from the protest front lines. We had already bought the T-shirts. We had already used the hashtag.

The issues that Black Lives Matter brought to the forefront of Americas consciousness havent gone anywhere. Maybe the clamor in the nations ears has a different tone. Perhaps it was drowned out by the voices of the people who are unmoved by dead black 12-year-olds, but wholl clog airport lobbies for every other shade of brown. Maybe it was too hard to hear when your ears were covered by the flaps of your pink pussy hat as the crowd screamed (ironically) about white men controlling their bodies. It may have been deflated by the sharp end of a safety pin. It doesnt fight anymore; it resists. Velveeta orange is the new black, and it is so distracting that we damn near forgot about ourselves.

Thats what happened to Black Lives Matter.

Us.

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Whatever Happened to Black Lives Matter? - The Root

Sometimes radical racists go off-script.

Yusra Khogali of the Toronto, Canada branch of Black Lives Matter wrote on what appears to be her Facebook page that white people are recessive genetic defects and wondered how whites could be wiped out.

The creatively spelled statement starts Whiteness is not humxness. According to the Toronto Sun, it continues, infact, white skin is sub-humxn.

White ppl are recessive genetic defects. this is factual, reads the post. [W]hite ppl need white supremacy as a mechanism to protect their survival as a people because all they can do is produce themselves. black ppl simply through their dominant genes can literally wipe out the white race if we had the power to.

In 2016 Khogali tweeted, Plz Allah give me strength to not cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today.

The report comes a fortnight after a Black Lives Matter supporter in Seattle issued a profanity-rich call to start killing people including President Trump. The unidentified speaker also ranted against white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and anti-blackness, dropping the F-bomb 55 times in the tirade.

At the time, I wrote that the speaker wasnt representative of all Black Lives Matter supporters.

Perhaps I wrong.

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Black Lives Matter leader claims whites sub-human suffer from genetic defects - Canada Free Press

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Pascale Diverlus yells into microphones during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Uranranebi Agbeyegbe screams into a microphone during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Black Lives Matter protesters march down Allen Road, which was closed off because of the crowd. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Josh Cedro (centre), 16, holds in fist up in demonstration during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Janaya Khan (centre) screams during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Demonstrators chant during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - A Black Lives Matter protest, which started on Gilbert Avenue, marched to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Pascale Diverlus yells into microphones during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Demonstrators chant 'black lives matter' during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Uranranebi Agbeyegbe chants with the crowd during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Pascale Diverlus (left) and Alexandria Williams scream into microphones during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TORONTO, ON- JULY 16 July 16, 2015 . Members of Black Lives Matter including Rodney Diverlus(second from right) stage a protest during Toronto Police Services Board monthly meeting at Toronto Police Headquarters Vince Talotta/Toronto Star (Vince Talotta/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Protester Ieshia Evans is approached by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman)

Protester Ieshia Evans is approached by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman)

Protester Ieshia Evans is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman)

Protester Ieshia Evans is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman)

Protester Ieshia Evans is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman)

Protester Ieshia Evans is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman)

Law officers stand on a street during protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

Demonstrators raise their hands in the air as law officials march down a street during protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

A demonstrator is detained during protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman)

A demonstrator protests the shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman)

A demonstrator raises his hands in front of police in riot gear during protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

Demonstrators scuffle with police during protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

Police scuffle with a demonstrator as they try to apprehend him during a rally in Baton Rouge, Louisiana U.S. July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

Demonstrators stand outside the Louisiana State Capitol building during a rally in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

Troy Holliday, of Baton Rouge, holds a sign and gestures to passing motorists in honor of Alton Sterling, outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, July 11, 2016. Sterling was shot and killed last Tuesday by Baton Rouge police while selling CD's outside the convenience store. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Police arrest protesters after dispersing crowds in a residential neighborhood in Baton Rouge, La. on Sunday, July 10, 2016. After an organized protest in downtown Baton Rouge protesters wondered into residential neighborhoods and toward a major highway that caused the police to respond by arresting protesters that refused to disperse. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

An armored police truck leads a troop of police through a residential neighborhood in Baton Rouge, La. on Sunday, July 10, 2016. After an organized protest in downtown Baton Rouge protesters wondered into residential neighborhoods and toward a major highway that caused the police to respond by arresting protesters that refused to disperse. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

Police arrest protesters after dispersing crowds in a residential neighborhood in Baton Rouge, La. on Sunday, July 10, 2016. After an organized protest in downtown Baton Rouge protesters wondered into residential neighborhoods and toward a major highway that caused the police to respond by arresting protesters that refused to disperse. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

Police officers arrest activist DeRay McKesson during a protest along Airline Highway, a major road that passes in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters Saturday, July 9, 2016, in Baton Rouge, La. Protesters angry over the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling by two white Baton Rouge police officers rallied Saturday at the convenience store where he was shot, in front of the city's police department and at the state Capitol for another day of demonstrations. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

Members of the New Black Panther Party march in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, July 9, 2016, in support of justice for Alton Sterling, who was killed by police Tuesday. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

A protester yells at police in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters after police arrived in riot gear to clear protesters from the street in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, July 9, 2016. Several protesters were arrested. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

A protester watches as police in riot gear clear the street of protesters in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, July 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

A protester yells at police in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters after police arrived in riot gear to clear protesters from the street in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, July 9, 2016. Several protesters were arrested. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

A protester yells at police officers in riot gear after being forced off the motor way in front of the the Baton Rouge Police Department Headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, July 9, 2016. Several hundred protesters, including members of the New Black Panther party, blocked the road causing police to close the road and move the crowd with riot police. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

A man attempts to stop protesters from engaging with police in riot gear in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters after police attempted to clear the street in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, July 9, 2016. Several protesters were arrested. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

BATON ROUGE, LA -JULY 11: Students gather at a prayer vigil for Alton Sterling at the Memorial Tower on the Louisiana State University campus July 11, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA -JULY 10: People gather to protest the shooting of Alton Sterling on July 10, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA -JULY 10: People gather to protest against the shooting of Alton Sterling on July 10, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA -JULY 10: Protesters shout 'Hands up, don't shoot' as law enforcement gather before charging the protesters to make arrests on July 10, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA -JULY 09: Baton Rouge police removed protesters that were arrested on July 9, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA -JULY 09: Law enforcement leave the protesters after moving in and making arrest on July 9, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA -JULY 09: Protesters face off with Baton Rouge police for a second night in a row on July 9, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA - JULY 09: Gina Key-Conrad pleads with Baton Rouge police in riot gear as they move in on the protesters over the Alton Sterling shooting on July 9, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA - JULY 09: Protesters march from the Baton Rouge City Hall to the Louisiana Capitol to protest the shooting of Alton Sterling on July 9, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

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Tyrone 'T-Rex' Edwards Talks White Privilege, Black Lives Matter And Mutual Respect - Huffington Post Canada

Arguing that the policing institution is an instrument of state violence and oppression, Black Lives Matter has set out to make Vancouver the third Canadian city to exclude police from its annual pride parade.

In response, an ad-hoc coalition of some of the citys most seasoned LGBT activists have begun organizing to stop them.

Absolutely no banning of the police in Vancouver Pride, said Metis trans activist Sandy-Leo Laframboise, a 46-year veteran of LGBT organizing.

Banning the police from the pride parade will undermine our commitment to diversity and inclusion and all the work weve done, said Sandy-Leo. They want to remove an entity that weve been working with for over 40 years.

Sandy-Leo is one of four who launched Our Pride Includes Our Police, a petition resisting a request by Black Lives Matter to remove uniformed police from the Vancouver Pride Parade.

The petitions co-creators are sex worker rights advocate Velvet Steele; Kevin Dale McKeown, the citys first openly gay columnist and Gordon Hardy, who co-founded the Vancouver Gay Liberation Front in the 1970s.

Earlier this month, Black Lives Matter organizers were successful in prompting police forces in both Toronto and Halifax to withdraw from their cities respective pride parades.

Gordon Hardy told Postmedia that Black Lives Matter can join the Vancouver parade and protest as much as they like.

What we object to is that they come along and start telling the rest of us in the community who can and cannot be in the parade, he said.

In a petition launched earlier this month, Black Lives Matter Vancouver called on the Vancouver Pride Society to end any and all presence of uniformed police officers.

The police can of course be present to do their jobs and show support but being in the parade is not appropriate, it read.

The petition makes few grievances specific to the Vancouver Police Department. However, past statements by the group have pegged police forces in general as fundamental to the perpetuation of structural violence against Black and brown bodies in North America.

If some members of the queer community do not feel comfortable at Pride events we must be the priority, reads the 2017 petition.

However, the counter-petition argues that it is wrong to paint Vancouver Police with the same brush as law enforcement in the United States or eastern Canada.

The counter-petition acknowledges what it calls the historic and ongoing injustices against the black communities in major American and Eastern Canadian cities, but adds they do not reflect relationships between Vancouvers LGBTQ communities with local law enforcement.

When Toronto Police were still raiding bathhouses in 1981, Vancouver had already started a police liaison committee with the gay and lesbian community. The department, as well as the RCMP, has had uniformed officers in the pride parade since 2002.

Velvet Steele, who has worked with the police on trans outreach, told the Georgia Straight this week that the Vancouver Police were one of the most progressive police forces in the country.

As a gay and trans sex worker in Toronto and Ottawa during the 1970s, Sandy-Leo was frequently chased and beaten by police officers during raids, and mocked in custody for having male genitalia.

Ive had my fair share of injustices that were speaking about, but I also think that weve evolved from that, Sandy-Leo said.

This is the second year that Black Lives Matter Vancouver has sought to exclude uniformed officers from Vancouver Pride.

In 2016, the Vancouver Police scheduled a meeting with Black Lives Matter and Vancouver Pride, and reached a compromise where officers would appear in the parade without their armoured rescue vehicle.

As Wednesday afternoon, the pro-police counter-petition had garnered 1,937 signatures to the 734 collected by Black Lives Matter Vancouver.

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'Our pride includes our police': Vancouver LGBT activists rally against Black Lives Matter plan to shun cops - National Post

Ishaq and Jade Byard Peek are behind Halifaxs first Black Lives Matter reading group. The weekly gathering is free and meets every Wednesday evening at the Khyber Centre for the Arts.

We have a mix of people who work in activist spaces, artist-run centers, galleries, and even at NSCAD as teachers, says Ishaq.

The idea comes from the Black Lives Matter Syllabus, compiled by NYU professor Frank Leon Roberts. Ishaq first saw the syllabus when it was being circulated back in the fall, and started doing readings on her own before she and Peek thought to co-facilitate a group.

Ishaq says they wanted to create a space that was open to allies, as well as BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and persons of colour] folks, with the hopes of creating a balanced conversation.

The reading sessions have been inspiring for participants like musician Nathan Doucet.

As a white man, coming to a group like this and a conversation like this, I just want to take what Ive been learning and feeling, and put it back out into the world and to my very same demographic with force, says Doucet, who hopes to use what hes learning in the group to make an impact on the citys music community.

The syllabus readings are free and accessible online to the public. It provides resources for teaching BLM in classroom and community settings. So far the Halifax group has read work from scholars like Audre Lorde and Cornel West.

Peek and Ishaq have also included readings and materials from the Canadian version of the syllabus, developed by Toronto lawyer and community activist Anthony Morgan, to highlight Canadian writers and history, as well.

We know all of these big African American names, but I think its also important to value the voices of the diaspora that are in Canada, too, says Ishaq. A lot of our conversations end up contextualizing things that happen in Halifax and Canada.

Issues of prejudice, gentrification and racism have long existed in Nova Scotia, which Peek and Ishaq aim to discuss alongside readings. Last week the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Toronto chapter, Pascale Diverlus, called in via Skype to talk to with members of the reading group, as part of their section on protesting. Diverlus talked about BLMTOs mobilizing efforts over the past year, which includes last Marchs tent city protest outside of police headquarters and their sit-in at Torontos Pride Parade in July.

Last week, both Halifaxs and Torontos police departments announced they will not be participating in Pride parades this summer, in no small part due to the activism work of BLMTO and members of the BIPOC community in Halifax.

Doucet says hearing from someone like Diverlus made him realize that you have to start taking action right away.

Its all relevant that were sitting here and talking, but if we dont feel emboldened to go off and do something similar to BLMTO, then why are we even here?

Upcoming talks at the reading group will include former HRM poet laureate El Jones, who will be coming in at the end of the month to talk about the prison-industrial complex. For people not in the group who are interested in learning more, Ishaq says theyll be hosting a couple of events in March open to the public, and anyone can follow along with their readings at blacklivesmattersyllabus.com.

Ishaq says her hope is the knowledge the group imparts to activists and allies will have an impact beyond the classrooms walls.

I hope that it doesnt just stay in this group, she says, but that it filters into their everyday lives.

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Reading for the revolution with Black Lives Matter - The Coast Halifax