Black Lives Matter

New York City has been the site of several protests against the killing of George Floyd since May 28, 2020, with demonstrations taking place in all of the city's five boroughs every day since. While the protests themselves are mostly peaceful, they have been met with unprecedented police brutality.

Our founder Kenny Morifi-Winslow attended and documented multiple protests in solidarity, in rage and in hope for a revolution. Belonging is group work.

In a show of force, one of three helicopters circling above a peaceful protest in Brooklyn dropped to single story height rooftop height in a military tactic used to disperse insurgents in conflict zones. This, in response to the crowd barricading a woman tackled to the ground by 4 police officers, with arms in the air chanting ‘hands up, don’t shoot’. Gun to a knife fight? They brought a tank to a peaceful protest.

#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organisation in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes, and celebrate + amplify Black Joy.