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Black Lives Matter means solidarity, not division

ā€œAll lives matter.ā€ That was my initial gut reaction to the media traction gained by the Black Lives Matter movement. I was empathetic to the high-profile killings of black Americans, but upset that Pedro Villanueva, Melissa Ventura, Anthony NuƱez, Raul Saavedra-Vargas, Vinson Ramos and Alex Nieto—all brown victims of police brutality—were not given the same […]