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If things aren't working for us, it is our duty to rise up.
We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.
I have always felt like I want to change the course of history.
Racism should be a core concern for all Americans in every area of our lives.
Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue.
The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.
My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.
I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.
I have three godkids that are just so gorgeous; I love them dearly, and they keep me going.
African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.
For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.
We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.
Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.
Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.
I challenge us all to have the courage of our convictions to fight for a fair, justice and inclusive society.
Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.
Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.
As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.
We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.
Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police.
I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums.
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
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.
I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.
President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.
Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.
I call on Democrats to use their leverage to fight for a clean DREAM Act and to reject Trump's racist agenda - not only in word but in deed.
We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.
Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.
If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.
The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.
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?'
Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.
To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.
My parents migrated to Phoenix, AZ, in the '80s, and I watched them work tirelessly to provide for me and my siblings as they encouraged us to pursue our dreams.
Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.
Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.
As we look ahead to our very diverse future, BAJI plans to continue to be at the forefront, uniting black communities to attain racial, social, and economic justice for all.
When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message. Our message has always been from a place of love.
We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.
We created #BlackLivesMatter. We created a platform. We used our social media presence online in order to forward a conversation about what is taking place in black communities.
Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.
I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger than myself. Black Lives Matter has been that.
My mom, my aunts, and all the Nigerian women in my life have been so fierce and strong. I have only grown up around powerful women, so I have a strong sense of self and our power.
The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation of human rights.
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 those in power choose to stand with us.
Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently fixed with each passing decade.
Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.
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 education system, and so on.
What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols. They were quite literally created in order to capture enslaved Africans.