Say Their Names
This 12-year-old boy was shot by police in Cleveland while playing with a toy pellet gun in 2014
Tamir Rice
Following the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, this movement was started
Black Lives Matter
Dope Is Death is about a detox clinic founded in the 1970s in the Lincoln Hospital by members of these two activist groups.
The Young Lords & The Black Panther Party
Which country has the most incarcerated people in the world?
The United States of America
True or False: Black people use illegal drugs at much higher rates than other racial groups.
False
This motorist live-streamed his own traffic stop after being shot by an officer in Minnesota in 2016
Philando Castile
True or False: Less than 2% of killings by police have resulted in officers being charged with a crime
True
This individual was the community and spiritual leader behind the first acupuncture detox clinic, and also was the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Dr. Mushulu Shakur
These two racial groups are disproportionately represented in the incarcerated population compared to their share of the general population
Black and Latine folx
True or False: The Police force within the United States has its roots in slavery
True
This Staten Island father’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” were captured on video and became a defining phrase in the BLM movement
Eric Garner
On average, US Law Enforcement kills someone every ___ hours
6.6 hours
In accordance with the documentary, heroin bags in NYC streets cost about this much during the height of the heroin epidemic.
$3 per bag
These two specific LGBTQ+ populations have some of the highest incarceration rates
Trans Women & LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in prison populations
True or False: NYC Public Schools are highly segregated
True
A Bronx woman experiencing a mental-health crisis was shot in her own bedroom in 2016 after police were called for help, raising outrage about how emergencies involving mental health are handled
Deborah Danner
This popular term represents a central demand of the Black Lives Matter movement that focuses on a restructuring of public safety that shifts funding from policing to community resources
Defund the Police
This specific drug use by her father greatly shaped Patrisse Khan‑Cullors’s understanding of the criminal justice system.
Crack or Cocaine
The US gov't spends around this much every year on incarceration
$182billion
In this year, Halle Berry became the first and so far only Black woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress
2002
This groom-to-be was shot 50 times by NYPD officers outside a Queens nightclub in 2006 on the morning of his wedding
Sean Bell
Since 2015, the #SayherName, coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, has been used to recognize and acknowledge the many black women who have been victims of state violence. Whose death kickstarted this movement?
Sandra Bland
Patrisse describes how society blames individuals for addiction, rather than acknowledging these larger forces (systems) that contribute to drug use. What term commonly describes this definition?
Systemic oppression or structural inequality
__% of LGBTQ incarcerated people have been put in solitary confinement
85%
The Black National Anthem is...
Lift Every Voice and Sing