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Instagram users can now virtually replace Confederate monuments with Black activist statues
EXCLUSIVE: Activists Alicia Garza and Chelsea Miller discuss The Pedestal Project s innovative AR technology to honor contemporary Black figures. Left to right: Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Black Futures Lab; Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis; and Chelsea Miller, founder of Freedom March NYC. (Photo: Getty Images, Instagram/TheChelseaMiller)
As Black History Month comes to a close the conversation this year, as in recent years, revolved around how to bring the discussion into the future, well past Feb. 28. Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, found a way to do just that with the launch of an augmented reality (AR) experience on Instagram that lets you place statues of racial justice leaders atop empty pedestals where confederate statues once stood.
Black Lives Matter foundation raised more than $90M in 2020 Print this article
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation claims to have raised more than $90 million in 2020, a year filled with protests against racial inequality and police brutality.
A report released this week also said that the foundation had $8.4 million in expenses in 2020 and announced plans to share $21.7 million in grants to a variety of leftist activist groups and local BLM chapters.
Patrisse Cullors, the executive director of the BLM Global Network Foundation and a self-described Marxist who formed the BLM national organization with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, claimed in a new letter this week that “in July, we paused for a moment as we were inundated with a surge of interest, attention, and allies.” She said that “our network of almost twenty chapters at the time came together to ideate something different; an entity and structure that could remain true to the grassroots origins of
The foundation widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement says it took in just over $90 million last year, according to a financial snapshot shared exclusively with The Associated Press.
NEW YORK The foundation widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement says it took in just over $90 million last year, according to a financia