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- 1. Diehl 1 Amber Diehl Sabrina Thomas FYS 100 12 February 2016 Do “Black Lives Matter”: An Annotated Bibliography Cullors, Patrisse, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza. "Black Lives Matter." Black Lives Matter. Haki Creatives Design for Social Change. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. The source was created by the founders of the “Black Lives Matter” movement. The three black women have at least one college degree. The purpose of the website is to make it relatively easy to connect within the “black” community. It is intended to let other organizations like their own to know what is going own with in the continuation of the civil rights movement. The website is to help encourage the ideas they have and to influence others on the ideas they hold. The website is indeed very bias because what goes on the website is controlled and only promotes their own ideas and feelings. When you go to the website you can learn for the most part what the organization is about and some of the people involved. You can also see “twitter” activity and “facebook” activity that pertains to the issue. Also, you can contact the organization through the website and make donations by way of the website. Cullors, Patrisse, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza. "Black Lives Matter." Black Lives Matter. Haki Creatives Design for Social Change. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. This website was created by the founder of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, Patrisse Cullors. The website gives a biography of Patrisse. She has accomplished a lot throughout her
- 2. Diehl 2 life span while being gay and black in a society that doesn’t really accept either of those qualities. Patrisse is also the founder and still an active board member of the organization “Dignity and Power Now”. That organization focuses on fighting the power of incarcerated people, their families, and communities. She is also the director for truth and reinvestment at the “Ella Baker Center for Human Rights”. This focuses on the advances of racial and economic justice to ensure dignity and opportunity for low-income people and people of color. She is also active in an organization called “Black Organization for Leadership and Dignity”. This is a national leadership training program designed to help rebuild black social justice infrastructure in order to organize black communities more effectively and re-center black leadership in the U.S. social justice movement. When Patrisse was 22 years old, she also received the “Mario Savio Young Activist Award”. This award is a $6,000 prize selected from aplicants ranging from 18- 26 years of age. The cash is split between the winner and the organization of their choosing. In order to win the, the applicant must show a significance in being deeply committed to human rights and social justice- which obviously she is. Ghandnoosh, Nazgol, Ph D. Black Lives Matter: Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System. Washington: Sentencing Project, 2015. Print. This book gives great detail about how criminal justice is not equal within the states. There is a great deal of statistics used to support the fact that black people are arrested or seen as more suspicious than white people. Stories and examples are given in this book of different scenarios where black people are arrested or searched when they don’t need to be. The purpose of this book is to persuade or inform people on how we as a country could change the way we practice law and how we enforce it based on race. As of when this book was written, black
- 3. Diehl 3 people have been unfairly arrested sometimes even without a warrant. This book wants people to realize just how extreme our law enforcement towards certain races has become. Vozick-Levinson, Simon. "Black Lives Matter: 11 Racist Police Killings With No Justice Served Read More: Http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/black-lives-matter-11-racist- police-killings-with-no-justice-served-20141204#ixzz3zyCvjmhO Follow Us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook." (2014). RollingStone. Web. 11 Feb. 2016. This article written by Simon is very deep. It mainly tells the story of many black U.S. citizen that were viciously killed. This article is definitely on the side of African Americans stating that they have had to constantly worry all their lives “whether police will kill their loved ones”. The people’s death stories mentioned in this article are just a short list of the families whos worries actually came true. The first person mentioned was Amadou Diallo. He was just trying to go into his apartment building when he was shot 41 times by NYPD member Kenneth Boss. The cop claimed he was reaching for a weapon but the only thing found on the victims body was a wallet. In 2012 the cop was back on the task force being permitted to again carry a gun. Another person mention in the article was Aiyana Stanley-Jones. At 7 years old a Detroit SWAT team threw a flash grenade through her family’s window while searching for a suspect in her neighborhood. The SWAT team stormed the house and shot the little girl in her sleep. There was a camera crew accompanying the SWAT team and the first two times they put the case on trails it ended in mistrials.
- 4. Diehl 4 García, Jennifer Jee-Lyn, and Mienah Zulfacar Sharif. "Black Lives Matter: A Commentary On Racism And Public Health." American Journal Of Public Health 105.8 (2015): e27-e30. PsycINFO. Web. 11 Feb. 2016. This article emphasizes the fact that while everything is going on with the police versus blacks that nobody is looking at what it can effect medically. This article is aimed to influence and persuade people to believe that with a public health agenda guided by the idea of equality and social justice that it will provide promising prospects to all the inequality going on now. They pointed out the deaths of Eric Garner (NYC) and Michael Brown (Ferguson) should remind people of the public health society to critically evaluate the work being done, values, and the views on racism. The people of this article strongly believe black lives do matter and that all lives matter in fact. They believe that the field of public health can guide toward a world of equality.