Black Lives Matter



Black Lives Matter

A social justice movement focusing on black oppression and police brutality in the US and abroad. Its start is typically associated with the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager who was unarmed at the time of the shooting. Black Lives Matter is organizing a demonstration outside city hall today.
See also: black, lives, matter

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Zhaleh-Persian
NadİR-Turkish
Ganymede-Greek Mythology (Anglicized)
IzabelleIZ-ə-belEnglish (Modern)
Josephinajo-sə-FEEN-əEnglish (Rare)
Elizabethi-LIZ-ə-bəth (English)English, Biblical