Black Lives Matter: a new civil rights movement?
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Channel: Arjen van der Horst - Foreign correspondent · 2015 · News & Politics
What started as the hasthtag #BlackLivesMatter has become gradually a movement in the United States. Black Lives Matter has grown out of a serious of incidents of police brutality against unarmed African Americans. Especially the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson gave the movement wings. But what does Black Lives Matter stand for and what do the activists demand? The last couple of weeks we followed two actvists: Tef Poe from Ferguson/St Louis and Kwame Rose in Baltimore. This is our report for Nieuwsuur.
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