Black Lives Matter Vocabulary

A complaint, objection, or display of unwillingness usually to an idea or a course of action

• Protesting

• Racism

When people are treated unfairly because of their race, religion, or ethnicity.

• Racism

• BLM

Black Lives Matter Movement is trying to end _____ against black and brown people.

• protesting

• violence

Everyone needs to _____ so that we have people of different races and genders in places where they make the rules.

• vote

• racism

To stop systemic racism, we need _____ to to people who are different.

• protest

• listen

Vigorous action or involvement as a way to achieve political or other goals, sometimes by demonstrations or protests

• Activism

• Community

A social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and may have a common cultural and historical heritage.

• Community

• Library

_____ is a person who works to change a community, aiming to make it a better place.

• Activist

• George Floyd

The rights that every person should have regardless of gender, race, or religion

• Civil Rights

• Prejudice

Treating a person or group of people unfairly because of their gender, race, or religion

• discrimination

• racism