Black Lives Matter
An international activist movement bringing justice, healing, and freedom to Black people across the globe. #BlackLivesMatter was founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi.
Aversive Racism
Attempts to avoid non-white people and communities or to be formal, correct, and cold in dealings with them.
Assimilation
Process of taking on social and cultural traits of the majority race in the nation in which one resides.
Anti-Racism
A practice, set of beliefs, and value system that recognizes the historic oppression and violence perpetuated against Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American bodies in the US and that works to educate people about this oppression and to end that oppression in our current day.
All Lives Matter
All Lives Matter: A slogan used to demean and challenge the Black Lives Matter Movement, and maintaining a perspective centered upon "racial dismissal, ignoring, and denial.”