
Tweets have poured in from California to England to Germany in honor of 15-year-old Fulton High School student and football player Zaevion Dobson who shielded three girls as gang members fired into a crowd of children. But there has been no mention of Dobson’s death from Deray McKesson, a prominent leader of Black Lives Matter and one of the movement’s social media figureheads.
by Jerome Hudson20 Dec 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

While Black Lives Matter members were shooting each other down on Twitter, black people were shooting each other to death in cities across the country.
by Jerome Hudson15 Dec 2015, 11:34 AM PST0

Any impartial observer could have seen the fall of Shaun King coming. Even if you discount the questions about his claim to black ethnicity, which was thrown into doubt by Breitbart’s reporting, the dubiousness of his financial affairs was bound to catch up with him. But what does his fall mean for Black Lives Matter, the movement which he sought to speak for?
by Allum Bokhari14 Dec 2015, 9:46 AM PST0

Black Lives Matter leader DeRay McKesson lashed out at The View co-host Raven-Symonè for making “deeply problematic and uninformed” comments on race and at CNN host Don Lemon for being “unnuanced” and “disconnected” from stories involving the supposed oppression of black people.
by Jerome Hudson12 Nov 2015, 8:00 PM PST0

In yet another scandal, journalist and activist Shaun King, the man Breitbart revealed was presenting himself as a biracial leader to the Black Lives Matter movement while having no idea whether he was even black, is under fire from his own supporters.
by Milo Yiannopoulos8 Nov 2015, 12:24 PM PST0

Videos of a white deputy roughly pulling a non-compliant black high school student out of her chair and then dragging her on the floor went viral Monday night, just hours after the incident occurred at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Over half of Spring Valley High’s students are black.
by Lee Stranahan27 Oct 2015, 7:02 AM PST0

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson argued Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson problematically “confuses” “the exceptionalism of his career” on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room.” Mckesson stated that he “grew up really in awe” of Carson’s medical career,
by Ian Hanchett9 Oct 2015, 4:33 PM PST0

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton met Friday with Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson, who has made disparaging remarks about “whiteness.”
by Patrick Howley9 Oct 2015, 2:42 PM PST0

According Deray McKesson, leader of the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement, he will be meeting Friday morning with Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton: — We meet with Hillary tomorrow AM. I’m looking forward to the convo & hopeful the convo
by John Nolte8 Oct 2015, 6:39 AM PST0

Academy Award-winning actress and noted feminist Meryl Streep is under fire for a controversial T-shirt she wore during a recent photo shoot to promote her new film about women’s suffrage.
by Daniel Nussbaum7 Oct 2015, 12:02 PM PST0

Activist and Black Lives Matter leader Deray McKesson spoke at the Taft School Tuesday and offered students a version of the Tamir Rice shooting in which police waited an hour to render first aid, possibly leading to his death. In fact, an FBI agent on scene rendered first aid to Rice in under four minutes.
by John Sexton7 Oct 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

DeRay McKesson, one of the top organizers for the Black Lives Matter movement, is seeking a meeting with presidential aspirant Marco Rubio. The request for a meeting follows comments in which Rubio seemed to lend his personal support to the group’s anti-cop rhetoric.
by Julia Hahn3 Oct 2015, 6:50 PM PST0

Black Lives Matter Twitter activist DeRay McKesson is slamming Australian comedian Rebel Wilson for making light of “police brutality” at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards.
by Kipp Jones31 Aug 2015, 2:42 PM PST0

The Washington Post reports that after a recent spike in murders, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser will ask the D.C. Council “to expand law enforcement powers to make it easier for officers to search individuals on parole or probation and immediately detain anyone found in violation of the terms of release.”
by Lee Stranahan26 Aug 2015, 7:45 PM PST0

Prominent #BlackLivesMatter activist DeRay McKesson retweeted a comment about the dramatic on-air murder of two TV station employees that criticized “whiteness” for calling the shooter a “disgruntled employee” and then added his own comments, which he later deleted.
by Lee Stranahan26 Aug 2015, 6:46 PM PST0

Bryce Williams’ self-described victim status, even while murdering innocents, will merit no rethinking of the divisive politics in which he apparently bathed.
by Ben Shapiro26 Aug 2015, 2:11 PM PST0

Black Lives Matter spokesman Deray McKesson was asked about the DOJ investigation into the death of Mike Brown, an example of the kind of fair, independent inquiry into police shootings the movement claims to support. McKesson’s response was to minimize
by John Sexton11 Aug 2015, 2:38 PM PST0

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Mike Brown’s death, the New York Times published a video in which three individuals–Johnetta Elzie, DeRay McKesson and Zellie Imani–discuss their history of Twitter activism inspired by the case.
by John Sexton10 Aug 2015, 4:49 PM PST0