Black lives matter articles
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I left the United States for a country where black lives do matter – Rwanda
Thirty years after one of history’s worst genocides, the country is full of promise and potential
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Supreme Court denies appeal by Louisiana Black Lives Matter protest organizer
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal by a Black Lives Matter activist, allowing the case against him to move forward in the lower courts.
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Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from Black Lives Matter organizer facing damages suit
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Black Lives Matters organizer DeRay Mckesson, letting stand a lower court’s decision that some critics fear could wind up limiting the First Amendment rights of Americans to organize protests against the government and police. The upshot is that Mckesson’s case will return to a lower court for further review. There were no noted dissents but Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote separately and said that lower courts would be able to take into...