Getting the Whole Village to the Movement: #BlackLivesMatter Please Call Home"
OUR COMMON GROUND discusses\xa0the critical elements of how to move the slogan to the movement throughout the Black community. How and where we participate and input into the strategic plan and agenda.\n\nThe Black Lives Matter movement was born out of the pain and injustice of Trayvon Martin's death in 2012 and gathered momentum in the wake of the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice and far too many others. The significance of this emergence was not so much the movement as it was the cry of our people declaring that \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d. A cry for a need for a new liberation uprising for Black people in America.\xa0#BlackLivesMatter\xa0as a slogan met the need of Black people to declare its pain, loudly and precisely. Moving that slogan as the undergird of a movement is the hard part. Figuring how we ignite political and social transformation -- not just marches, Twitter feeds and shouting matches on- and offline is the real challenge. \xa0Learn more and share our broadcast.\n\n\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK\n\nOCG Web:\xa0http://ourcommonground.com/\n\n\nCommunity Forum:\nhttp://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/\n\n\nTwitter: @JaniceOCG\xa0#TalkthatMatters\n\n\nemail: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com