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Title: Alabama dancer’s Black Lives Matter video goes viral - Alabama NewsCenter

URL: https://alabamanewscenter.com/2020/07/09/alabama-dancers-black-lives-matter-video-goes-viral/

Description: Article posted on Alabama NewsCenter.

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Subject:   Lockhart, Rachel Alabama School of Fine Arts -- Students Dancers -- Alabama -- Birmingham Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham Floyd, George, 1973-2020 Social justice -- Alabama -- Birmingham

Title: Black Lives Matter street mural finished in 2 days, just in time for Juneteenth - Bham Now

URL: https://bhamnow.com/2020/06/18/black-lives-matter-street-mural-finished-in-2-days-just-in-time-for-juneteenth-photos-video/

Description: "Black Lives Matter street mural finished in 2 days, just in time for Juneteenth." "On Thursday, June 18, 2020, a diverse group of Birmingham activist, artists and volunteers completed a street mural stating 'Black Lives Matter' right in front of Railroad Park..."

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Subject:   Juneteenth Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham National Juneteenth Observance Foundation of Alabama Street art -- Alabama -- Birmingham Racial justice -- Alabama -- Birmingham

Title: Center Point Woman Leads White Birminghamians for Black Lives - BirminghamWatch

URL: https://birminghamwatch.org/center-point-woman-leads-white-birminghamians-black-lives/

Description: Judy Hand-Truitt ... "The 72-year-old Center Point resident has been socially awake from her youth and four years ago established White Birminghamians For Black Lives to protest racial injustice. "The racially mixed group marched regularly at Birmingham’s Kelly Ingram Park until the pandemic made their marches less frequent. Its most recent march was Friday, May 29; its next march will be Friday, June 26." BirminghamWatch article posted June 19, 2020.

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Subject:   Hand-Truitt, Judy Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham Race relations -- Alabama -- Birmingham White Birminghamians For Black Lives Police shootings -- Alabama Discrimination in law enforcement -- Alabama -- Birmingham

Title: Protestors Ask Birmingham Council to ‘Defund the Police’ - BirminghamWatch

URL: https://birminghamwatch.org/protestors-ask-birmingham-council-defund-police/

Description: "Approximately 50 protestors gathered outside Birmingham City Hall during Tuesday morning’s City Council meeting, but most weren’t allowed inside due to concerns over social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic." "... as Mayor Randall Woodfin promised to 'soon share a closer look at the processes and procedures at the Birmingham Police Department, including training and disciplinary actions for officers, adjustments within Internal Affairs and more.'" But, the voices outside were calling for the City Council to defund the police. "Non-profit, non-partisan BirminghamWatch depends on donors to support its public service journalism."

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham Police administration -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Finance Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept. Police-community relations -- Alabama -- Birmingham Discrimination in law enforcement -- Alabama -- Birmingham BirminghamWatch Birmingham (Ala.). City Council

URL: https://twitter.com/search?q=bham%20black%20lives%20matter&src=typed/

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URL: https://twitter.com/search?q=bham%20confederate%20monument%20&src=typed/

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Title: George Floyd’s Killing Sparks Frustration Among Birmingham’s Black Lives Matter Group

URL: https://wbhm.org/feature/2020/george-floyds-killing-sparks-frustration-among-birminghams-black-lives-matter-group/

Description: "George Floyd's killing sparks frustration among Birmingham's Black Lives Matter group." "Civil unrest continues across the U.S. after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis. Birmingham’s chapter of Black Lives Matter is hoping to use Floyd’s case to draw renewed attention to the 2018 police killing of Emantic “EJ” Bradford Jr. in Hoover’s Riverchase Galleria. Eric Hall is a founding member of the Birmingham chapter. He said the current unrest is bigger than Floyd or Bradford."

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham Racial justice -- Alabama -- Birmingham Floyd, George, 1973-2020 -- Death and burial Bradford, Emantic (EJ) Discrimination in law enforcement -- Alabama -- Birmingham Police -- Complaints against -- Alabama -- Birmingham Police brutality -- Alabama -- Birmingham

Title: Watch Birmingham Black Lives Matter street painting live - al.com, Birmingham Black Lives Matter Street Painting

URL: https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/birmingham-black-lives-matter-street-painting-closing-part-of-1st-avenue-south.html

Description: "The words “Black Lives Matter’’ is being painted on the street on First Avenue South in Birmingham, between 16th and 17th streets South near Railroad Park." "The project, mirrored after one in Washington, D.C., will require the road to be blocked off June 17-19, as organizers hope to complete the project by Friday to celebrate Juneteenth."

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham Street art -- Alabama -- Birmingham Muralists -- Alabama -- Birmingham Social problems in art Fitzwater, Shawn McClure, Cara

Title: The Official Website of the Birmingham City Council – Alabama, Resolution to Rename Portion of Sixteenth Street North Will Be Withdrawn as President Parker Works With Community Leaders to Address Reformative Policy Matters

URL: https://www.birminghamalcitycouncil.org/2020/06/26/resolution-to-rename-portion-of-sixteenth-street-north-will-be-withdrawn-as-president-parker-works-with-community-leaders-to-address-reformative-policy-matters/

Description: Statement posted on the Birmingham City Council website concerning Council President William Parker's resolution to rename a portion of Sixteenth Street North.

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Subject:   Parker, William Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham Streets -- Alabama -- Birmingham Birmingham (Ala.). City Council

Title: The Artist and Activist Behind Birmingham’s Black Lives Matter Street Mural | The Birmingham Times

URL: https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2020/06/the-artist-and-activist-behind-birminghams-black-lives-matter-street-mural/

Description: "The Artist and Activist Behind Birmingham's Black Lives Matter Street Mural" "Shawn Fitzwater of Fitz Hand Painted Signs and Cara McClure, of Black Lives Matter Birmingham both came up with an idea to create a BLM street mural in downtown. So the city paired the two for the project." "The mural is located on First Avenue South between 16th and 17th streets."

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham McClure, Cara Fitzwater, Shawn Street art -- Alabama -- Birmingham Human rights workers -- Alabama -- Birmingham Social problems in art Muralists -- Alabama -- Birmingham

Title: Alabama mayor resigns after slamming Crimson Tide for supporting Black Lives Matter, NBC News

URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-mayor-resigns-after-slamming-crimson-tide-supporting-black-lives-n1232536/

Description: NBC News story posted June 30, 2020" "Alabama mayor resigns after slamming Crimson Tide for supporting Black Lives Matter" "Mayor Mark Chambers of Carbon Hill had posted on Facebook, 'When you put Black lives before all lives they can kiss my a--,'"

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Subject:   Black lives matter -- Alabama University of Alabama -- Athletics University of Alabama -- Football Saban, Nick Chambers, Mark Carbon Hill (Ala.). Mayor

Title: Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Toppling Confederate Statues - Rolling Stone

URL: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/birmingham-alabama-mayor-randall-woodfin-confederate-statues-racism-1026205/

Description: "An Interview From Birmingham City Hall: Mayor Randall Woodfin on Toppling Racist Monuments." "Confederate statues are acknowledging and celebrating systemic racism in the form of relegating black people to being property and slaves."

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Subject:   Monuments -- Alabama -- Birmingham Confederate Sailors and Soldiers Monument (Birmingham, Ala.) Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham Racism -- Alabama -- Birmingham Woodfin, Randall

Title: Volunteers come together to paint unifying 'Black Lives Matter' message on a Birmingham street - This Is Alabama, ThisIsAlabama.org, This Is Alabama

URL: https://www.thisisalabama.org/2020/06/29/volunteers-come-together-to-paint-unifying-black-lives-matter-message-on-a-birmingham-street/

Description: "People across Birmingham came together recently to paint a unifying message on a Magic City street." "Volunteers come together to paint unifying Black Lives Matter message on a Birmingham street."

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Subject:   Street art -- Alabama -- Birmingham Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Birmingham Floyd, George, 1973-2020 -- Death and burial Social justice -- Alabama -- Birmingham

Title: Homewood rally offers raw look at Black Lives Matter goals

URL: https://www.wbrc.com/2020/06/02/homewood-rally-offers-raw-look-black-lives-matter-goals/

Description: "Homewood rally offers raw look at Black Lives Matters goals." "Rally for George Floyd in Homewood"

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement -- Alabama -- Homewood WBRC FOX6 TV (Birmingham, Ala.) Television stations -- Alabama -- Birmingham Homewood (Ala.) -- Social justice Demonstrations -- Alabama -- Homewood

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