Black Lives Matter – Origin and Relevance for Australia
Rosie Ashley, 14 August 2020 Black Lives Matter – what is it? To kick off our research sprint we needed to take a step back to understand the context of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and its origin. In 2013, the BLM movement began in the United States, opposing police brutality and violence against people of colour. Since then, a series of protests have rippled through the United States in response to black people being killed by police, and police being acquitted or not satisfact