Black Lives Matter: The Story of a Slogan

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mukul Devichand and Mike Wendling travel around the United States, talking to Black Lives Matter activists, the parents of young black men shot by police, civil rights elders like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and police officials. In an election year that will be crucial to the country’s future, can Black Lives Matter change America?

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0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCworldservice.com slash
0:07.7	podcasts.
0:11.7	BBC World Service in the USA tracking one of the biggest protest hashtags of recent times.
0:18.0	Black Lives Matter.
0:20.3	My name is Pansy at Wies, my son is Dakota Bright.
0:24.0	He was 15 years old when he was murdered by Chicago Police.
0:28.0	The south side of Chicago, predominantly black and poor,
0:32.0	is one of the most violent places in a violent country.
0:34.6	A teenager Dakota Bright was shot dead here but those who killed him weren't robbers
0:40.9	or gang members they were police the protectors of law and order.
0:45.0	The baby was a baby. They killed him for no reason and they got every excuse in the world so why they killed them.
0:55.0	And it's sad.
0:57.0	Sad.
0:59.0	Dakota was black and police treatment of African Americans is fueling a new angry
1:05.1	protest movement organized on social media under the hashtag Black Lives Matter.
1:10.3	The case is three years old but suddenly now a crowd of activists and reporters are
1:15.4	lined up here in the street at a public event to talk about it.
1:19.4	It's not clear whether Dakota was an innocent victim.
1:22.2	The police maintain he had a gun and an investigation
1:24.8	continues. But his mother's cries of racial injustice are being suddenly amplified.
1:31.2	Do you feel that the atmosphere in Chicago or in America has changed with regard to this issue?
1:38.0	Yes. Now people are getting tired. I was very frustrated. Well my son got cute, I really couldn't get nobody to stand up with me.
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