Cuts to Metro General Hospital? Gentrification of our communities? Lack of Police accountability and a community overusing board? 5.4 Billion tax for light rail?…we need to turn the spotlight back on our communities. Join Pathe Nashville and the Community Oversight Now Coalition this Sunday to learn how all these issues are connected and how we…
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On Fundraising
This month, Black Lives Matter Nashville started our first large scale fundraiser. We’re so grateful to those who have already donated and are happy to say that we’ve already raised over $6,000. However, we still have a long way to reach our $100,000 goal. That figure may seem daunting right now, but we’re certain that…
Books & Breakfast: Black Revolutionary Women Thinkers Additional Reading
On Saturday, January 28th BLM Nashville and Protect the Culture hosted a Books & Breakfast on Black Revolutionary Women thinkers. We read and discussed works from Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler, and Kimberle Crenshaw. Over 75 people joined us as we learned and grew together. Many have asked…
Statement on Harriet Tubman and the $20 Bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE We have mixed feelings about the Treasury Department’s decision to place ex-enslaved and black feminist abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill. On one hand, it’s past time this country recognizes the important contributions black women have made toward moving this country toward a more perfect union. And we do understand that…
Op-Ed: Occupation is Not Safety
by Rhiana Anthony This editorial is a calling out to call-in and hold the people who hold power in this city accountable for the realities they create. I first heard about the series of altercations that took place within the Cayce community through the Tennessean. As I read through the story, I was immediately disheartened…
BLM Nashville Statement on Library Meeting Space Cancellation
After several months of meeting at the North Branch library, on Wednesday (2/19), the Nashville Chapter of Black Lives Matter was contacted through email and by phone that library administrators received complaints regarding BLM’s policy of general meetings being open to black and non-black people of color only. Although meeting rooms are available to local…
Welcome to the Poor People’s March: Message to Nashville MLK Day
Welcome to the poor people’s march We are here to reclaim the legacy of MLK We continue the fight against police brutality against state-sanctioned killing of Black people by law enforcement against racial profiling WE SEE YOU OPERATION SAFER STREETS against poverty, against under-education against healthcare disparities, against for-profit prison systems and against corrupt political…
Black Lives Matter Nashville Organizers Draw on King’s Legacy, Join In Weekend of Regional Actions
Monday, January 18, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NASHVILLE, TN –Today, in celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Black Lives Matter Nashville hosted our 2nd Poor People’s March to continue to fight against police brutality, state-sanctioned killing of Black people by law enforcement, poverty, under-education, healthcare disparities, criminalization by…
