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White Silence is White Violence

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Black Lives Matter  ( BLM ) is a non-violent civil disobedience  movement in protest against incidents of police brutality against Afro-American people.  In 2013, this movement began with the use of the hashtag  #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Earlier BLM had staged street demonstrations in 2004 following the deaths of two African Americans resulting in  protests and unrest in Ferguson , a city near  St. Louis and  Eric Garner  in New York City. In the summer of 2015, Black Lives Matter activists became involved in the 2016 United States presidential election.  The movement returned to national headlines and gained further international attention during the global George Floyd protests in 2020 following...