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black lives matter

black lives matter phrase: a rallying call and statement of protest, concerning police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.

black lives matter: a rallying call and statement of protest, concerning police brutality and racially motivated...
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Phrase (1)

black lives matter

  1. A rallying call and statement of protest, concerning police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.
    • The ADL’s work covers the usual left-wing causes célèbres: fighting voting integrity measures, pushing for open-borders policies and amnesty for illegal aliens, and vigorously defending the Black Lives Matter riots, to name a few.2024 February 16, Mike Howell, “Partnership With ADL Compromises FBI’s Integrity and Fairness”, in The Daily Signal
    Synonyms:
    BLM

Phrase (2) capitalized: Black lives matter

Black lives matter

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of black lives matter.

black lives matter meaning in Arabic and Malay

black lives matter in Arabic

statement of protest
حَيَاةُ السُّودِ مُهِمَّة ḥayātu as-sūdi muhimma

black lives matter in Malay

statement of protest
nyawa orang hitam penting

Synonyms of black lives matter

Forms of black lives matter

alternative formBlack lives matter

Origin of black lives matter

Originally used in the form of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media (2013), protesting against the deaths of African Americans at the hands of the police.

Questions about black lives matter

What does black lives matter mean?
Black lives matter means a rallying call and statement of protest, concerning police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.
What is black lives matter in Arabic?
Black lives matter in Arabic is حَيَاةُ السُّودِ مُهِمَّة (ḥayātu as-sūdi muhimma). See Black lives matter meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is black lives matter?
Black lives matter is a phrase.

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Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: black lives matter (page history and authors); Black lives matter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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