African Americans’ Response to Police Brutality: The Black Lives Matter’s Strategy and Agenda

With highly profiled incidents of police shootings of unarmed African Americans which the American criminal justice system deemed justifiable, came the response Black Lives Matter. The rise of this movement coincided with the second Obama presidency in 2014. This indicates that nuclear social injustices related to race are still existent in American society. The Black Lives Matter is a social justice movement that protests the police brutality of African American citizens. The present book aims at analyzing the efficiency of the movement’s strategies in reinforcing its agenda against the rampant police killings of black Americans. In particular, this research deals with three selected strategies: the use of social media, the horizontal approach of leadership, and the fusion of LGBTQ and anti-brutality activism.