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Social movement originating in the USA
Claims that protesters are “paid” have repeatedly been deployed in U.S. politics to delegitimize dissent and shift blame for unrest, from allegations around the Dakota Access Pipeline and Charlottesvi...
The 2025 boycott of Target was triggered mainly by the company’s January decision to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and to scale back related hiring and spending commitments ...
began as Black American vernacular signalling being alert to racial injustice and evolved into a broad shorthand for awareness of social inequalities, then into a contested political epithet used both...
Tidal — the streaming service originally tied to Jay‑Z — has a public record of charitable giving toward social justice causes, most notably a $1.5 million pledge connected to Black Lives Matter in 20...
Since 2020, reporting shows , sometimes engaging in clashes with far‑right groups and police, and in a smaller number of cases being linked to violent acts and criminal charges; these developments hav...
does fund a vast network of civil-society organizations through the , and those foundations have made grants to groups that promote civic engagement; however, there is no documented evidence that Soro...
Federal and local courts have directly confronted police use of Long Range Acoustic Devices () against protesters, most prominently in , where a federal district judge and then held that LRAD “area de...
The record of criticisms and controversies around Black Lives Matter’s leadership centers on , with disputes ranging from DOJ inquiries and civil lawsuits to public defections by former organizers and...
Antifa is a decentralized, anti-fascist movement with no national leadership, and Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a broader racial-justice movement; , though individuals and local actors have at times ove...
Nextdoor is not plainly or uniformly "liberal" in the way a newspaper or political organization is, but its moderation system and real-world cases have produced repeated accusations that conservatives...
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) publicly committed a major funding package to racial‑justice work in July 2020, most prominently a pledge split into for Black‑led organizations and for r...
Black Lives Matter’s national network has both distributed substantial funds to community groups and retained large assets, while facing persistent questions about governance and transparency that hav...
Candace Owens has repeatedly criticized the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, arguing it promotes a , harms Black communities, and has been co‑opted by radical political aims rather than pursuing equ...
Antifa did not issue a single, verifiable public action that “shut down Portland, Oregon” on a specific date; reporting shows intermittent, localized disruptions and prolonged protest periods in 2020 ...
Available sources show Jasmine Crockett began her legal career as a public defender in Bowie County, Texas, later running a private law firm that took civil suits and pro bono work for Black Lives Mat...
Democratic elected officials and allied civic groups in Minnesota responded to the 2017 killing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond with public expressions of outrage, calls for accountability and broader poli...
that funds everything from street protests to “-tropes-surrounding-george-soros">domestic terrorism” have been repeatedly deployed as political weapons—amplified by politicians, partisan media and con...
Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people during the 2020 Kenosha unrest, killing two; he was later acquitted and has repeatedly appeared at paid conservative fundraisers where ticket prices ranged up to $39...
Candace Owens has drawn repeated controversy for public statements about nationalism and Adolf Hitler, dismissals of systemic racism and Black activism, and provocative takes on COVID, public figures ...
The evidence provided shows that claims of widespread or primary are not supported by the bulk of the cited analyses: multiple studies and reviews find Antifa is a implicated in some clashes and prope...