BLACK LIVES MATTER: KEY TO PHOTOGRAPHS

1-10 Justice for All March, Washington, D.C. December 13, 2014

"I can't breathe" alternated with "hands up...don't shoot" as thousands of chanting protesters marched peacefully down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol on Saturday December 13th as part of a nation-wide response to the highly-publicized decisions of two separate grand juries, in Staten Island, New York and Ferguson, Missouri not to indict white police officers for the deaths of the unarmed Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

11 Baltimore, MD April, 2015

Freddy Gray died of a severed spine while in police custody. Charges were eventually dropped against the six police officers involved.

12-14 Inauguration of Donald Trump, 2017

"I think they're trouble. I think they're looking for trouble," the Republican presidential candidate said during a Fox News interview with Bill O’Reilly. (http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-black-lives-matter-2015-9)

Trump also said the phrase "black lives matter" is "very divisive." "The first time I heard it, I said 'You have to be kidding,'" he said. (http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/287495-trump-black-lives-matter-group-dividing-america)

“This dangerous anti-police atmosphere is wrong. The Trump administration will end it.”   ( http://www.complex.com/life/2017/01/donald-trump-white-house-website-appears-to-send-veiled-warning-to-black-lives-matter-protesters)

"I think it's a very, very, very divisive term. There's no question about it.” (http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/287495-trump-black-lives-matter-group-dividing-america)

Sessions wants a review of consent decrees, which have been used for decades to force reforms (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post nation/wp/2017/04/04/sessions-wants-a-review-of-consent-decrees-which-have-been-used-for-decades-to-force-reforms/?utm_term=.a93ce76ca13b)

FBI terrorism unit says 'black identity extremists' pose a violent threat (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/06/fbi-black-identity-extremists-racial-profiling)

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Demonstration in Washington Square Park, New York City, opposing Trump Muslim Ban, 2017

Demonstration outside of Leonard Lance Town Hall at Raritan Valley Community College, 2017

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals: ”executive order "that in text speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.” (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/25/trumps-muslim-ban-20-dripping-intolerance-ruled-unconstitutional)

17-18 Women’s March on Washington, 2018

The marchers were organized and unaffiliated, interracial and intergenerational

A founder of Black Lives Matter answers a question on many minds: Where did it go? (http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-patrisse-cullors-black-lives-matter-2017-htmlstory.html)

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Paul Hamilton is a professional freelance photojournalist based in Long Valley.

Justice For All March, Washington, D.C., December 13, 2014