How to Use Black Lives Matter in a Sentence

Black Lives Matter

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  • People started saying Black Lives Matter was an anti-semitic movement.
    — Colleen Hamilton, Them, 25 July 2024
  • This section of the movie is filmed after the wave of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
    — Ariana Brockington, NBC News, 20 June 2024
  • And in 2015 people were scared to use the hashtag Black Lives Matter.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Other photos of protests and struggles bridge the decades from the 1960s to the era of Black Lives Matter and modern activism.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • He’s asked the company to instead reroute these checks to Black Lives Matter.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
  • His death was among the catalysts for the Black Lives Matter movement in summer 2020.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But as soon as the Black Lives Matter chants quieted in the streets, so did their rabid support.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
  • One social movement that gripped the nation was called Black Lives Matter.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • And despite the course’s origins around the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, study of the movement is optional.
    — Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Even with Black Lives Matter, the goal is Black liberation.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The book was inspired by the same events that inspired the Black Lives Matter movement — police killings of unarmed Black men and women.
    — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • There is no mention of a contribution to Black Lives Matter.
    — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Moreover, Kendi, despite his public gestures of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, has a top-down view of change.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Kelce has since continued to publicly support the Black Lives Matter movement.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
  • For a while, it was almost guaranteed that, somewhere on the homepage or the log-in screen, there would be a little black square that featured a message about Black Lives Matter.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The shirt is an appropriation of the Black Lives Matter movement's chant that is intended to give voice to women who had been killed by police.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 raised awareness about racial profiling by law enforcement.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • At least so far, the pro-Palestinian protests have been relatively small compared with the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020.
    — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • There were rainbow-flag face masks and Black Lives Matter T-shirts and buttons affirming the many other tenets of yard-sign liberalism.
    — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The phrase is one that was adopted by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, and the rapper faced backlash from both fans and celebrities online.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 20 June 2024
  • She’s also drawn fire for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • The track was criticized for promoting gun violence and taking aim at the Black Lives Matter movement.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The pandemic’s seemingly never-ending costs, and the growing support across the country for the Black Lives Matter movement.
    — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • An internal movement withers The inferno that the Black Lives Matter resurgence sparked in 2020 has since dwindled.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2024
  • His stance is perhaps an outlying one in a nation where some social movements, like Black Lives Matter, have only just begun to make waves.
    — Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In one instance, a man driving past the Black Lives Matter protesters threw coffee out the window, drenching an older woman.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2024
  • Paige has also been vocal about advocating for Black Lives Matter as Drew is biracial.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Cannon-Grant started the anti-violence nonprofit in 2017 and emerged as a local leader in the Black Lives Matter movement.
    — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • There was a desire for freedom and movement, combined with the progressive value of taking care of each other that rose out of quarantine and the Black Lives Matter movement.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
  • The ensuing Black Lives Matter protests shook the nation and sparked a racial reckoning in which numerous sectors of society, from government to schools to policing, committed to racial equity.
    — Kizzy Cox, Essence, 18 July 2024

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