Black Lives Matter
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2024
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AIPGG Journal of Humanities and Peace Studies
Abstract
Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was indeed a Social and political revolution.
The events that followed the killing of George Floyd in the year 2020 became a
catalyst for the acceleration of several socio-political processes relating the
discourse on Civil Rights globally. The BLM movement that emerged became a
conveyor belt for exhuming pertinent Civil rights issues that had been buried over
time. The paper contends that is spread, reach and impact was revolutionary. The
reaction to BLM was unique in many ways adding to the revolutionary nature of
the fallout experienced all over the world. The paper presents a historical
antecedents to the movement and traces the factors that can be held responsible
for its outbreak.