5 milestone accomplishments from the year in Black Lives Matter

In 2016, 223 black people have been shot and killed by police, and Black Lives Matter, the nearly four-year old diffuse movement calling attention to the importance and preservation of black life, continued to penetrate mainstream American life. While Donald Trump was hitting the stump promising to restore law and order to black communities (without actually having visited one until September), protesters and organizers were putting pressure on the Democratic candidates, informing both criminal justice reform policy proposals and rhetoric. A bloody summer of police-involved shootings and deaths of black Americans led to wave of widely covered protests. And, finally, the shock of Trump’s win prompted many Black Lives Matter organizers to double down on their commitment to the work. Here are the movement’s five biggest milestones in 2016. They put their demands into words and onto paper. In August, The Movement for Black Lives, a group of more than 50 organizations signed onto a platform with an extensive list of policy demands and “key solutions,” ranging from demilitarizing law enforcement to unionizing unregulated industries and decriminalizing drugs. It was notable for a collective that has, for the most part, avoided any cohesive structure or unity owing not to it being a… Read full this story

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