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“Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.”

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There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the…

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Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and…

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Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up for immigrants?'

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Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and…

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Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.

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I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

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I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed…

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Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of…

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I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those…

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Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight…

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We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

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Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently…

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