Download these demands on a poster (JPG or PDF) 1. CLOSE HOMAN SQUARE We demand the immediate closing of Homan Square (and all other unknown “black sites”) where over 7,000...
Chicago spends nearly 40% of its annual operating budget, over $1.8 billion, on the Chicago Police Department. For years, young Black people and the movements behind them have called for...
We honor your lives. We speak your names. We refuse to allow you to be erased. Justice for Families (JFF) is a working group of Black Lives Matter: Chicago. We are...
Black Lives Matter Chicago is an intersectional vehicle that values Black people and our right to self-determination. We fight for justice with families most impacted, while working to create just and equitable systems.
PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN PROTESTING Given the increased criminalization of protesters as well as many events including ones that occurred in Oakland on December 10, 2014, with the...
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Black women leaders are standing in solidarity of Anjanette Young and other victims of home raids. They seek justice and demand the elimination of no-knock warrants as a use of...
The following is a statement from Lifted Voices and Black Lives Matter Chicago: It appears Donald Trump has been defeated at the ballot box, but as we have long expected,...
Chicago, IL — Yesterday, August 9, 2020, Chicago police shot another Black person in Englewood. Chicago police allege that they stopped someone who they suspected of possessing a gun. Next,...
In the early morning hours Friday, the City of Chicago finally removed two statues of the colonizer Christopher Columbus. As stated by Chi-Nations Youth Council, “the people got this statue...
On November 1, 1984 Stanley Howard was arrested and subjected to torture by Chicago Police detectives James Lotito, Ronald Boffo, John Byrne and Robert Dwyer under the command of...