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Black man shot by police on July 6, 2016
Public reporting from ’s two terms documents multiple high‑profile killings by police that sparked large protests in the — notably the deaths of , and — and also records civilian deaths from U.S. dron...
BLEXIT traces to two different origins: an original grassroots “Blexit” founded after Philando Castile’s 2016 killing by Me’Lea Connelly that promoted Black economic independence , and a separate cons...
Between 2009 and 2017, several U.S. protests escalated into riots or violent unrest tied most often to police killings or controversial right-wing/white-supremacist mobilizations: the 2009 Oakland unr...
BLEXIT is a contested brand and political project whose name and original grassroots aims (Black economic independence) predate Candace Owens but which she repurposed in 2018–2019 into a conservative ...
Blexit has two distinct wings in reporting: a grassroots Minneapolis-origin Blexit that built the Village Financial Cooperative and raised nearly $4 million for community banking , and the Candace Owe...
The media framing of ’s killing emphasized her presumed innocence, whiteness, and human-interest elements in ways scholars and commentators say differed from typical coverage of unarmed Black victims,...
The Obama years saw several high-profile protests that escalated into episodes of violent unrest—most prominently Ferguson and Baltimore —each ignited by controversial police killings of young Black m...
Blexit refers to two related but distinct initiatives: an original Minneapolis-based grassroots movement launched by Me’Lea (Me’La) Connelly in 2016 focused on Black economic independence, and a later...