WID: I would give myself a 100 of course.

Just kidding, I did not fill one of the requirements so

I would say the highest grade I can get is a 95, thats if everything else is perfect. I feel like I
filled out all of the other requirements. When I got the assignment sheet I annotated it and
immediately made a checklist to use when I am revising each of my bibs, and I did, in fact, fulfill
every requirement. I hope my writing sounds eloquent enough to make a decent grade on this
assignment, once again I did work incredibly hard on this and I hope that it becomes evident to
you.

Reflection: I really liked writing annotated bibs, honestly. They got a little redundant at times,
but it is nice to have all of the information in one document now. I found that a lot of the
keywords I used involved blacklivesmatter and racism the three founders names continued
to come up in the articles sources and I liked that because it tied everything together for me. I
am so excited to continue to pursue this topic. I hope I did a good job on these bibs because I put
a ton of time into them. Overall I feel like a lot worked for me, I did not fill one of the
requirements which was to find two scholarly journals, I could only find one that loosely
pertained to my topic. I also could not find any books at the library on the #BlackLivesMatter
movement, but I will surely try to find some on the Civil Rights Movement, maybe that could
help? I gained a lot from writing these bibs and I hope my classmates did as well. It was a very
tedious and detail oriented assignment, but its nice seeing everything fall into place as I finish. I
hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

Annotated Bibliography 1:

Cullors, Patrise, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza. "About Black Lives Matter."Black Lives Matter
RSS2.

Haki Creatives, 03 Mar. 2012. Web. 15 Mar. 2016.

About the Black Lives Matter Network

Patrisse Cullors , anti-police violence organizer, Opal Tometi, immigration rights organizer, and
Alicia Garza, domestic workers rights organizer, are all founders of the Black Lives Matter
movement. These women are the voices for individuals that have been silenced through systemic
racism. They started the BLM movement back in 2012 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman
for the murder of Trayvon Martin. The women open the statement with a broad definition of the
meaning behind #BlackLivesMatter; they describe the movement as: a chapter-based national
organization working for the validity of black life. (About: Black Lives Matter) The
movement is based off of the social injustices that the black community has faced since the
resignation of the Civil Rights Movement in the sixties. As stated on the webpage, these
injustices include and are not limited to: Black girls are being used as negotiating chips during

times of conflict and war how black poverty and genocide are a state violence, and how
black women bearing the burden of relentless assault on our children and our families is state
violence, (Black Lives Matter). The target audience of this particular website may include
individuals who are looking to understand the movement as well as individuals looking to resist
social change. The social movement has spread rapidly in the past four years, one could assume
that the average American is aware of its existence.

Other quotes: Rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our
dehumanization, #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black
racism that permeates our society.(BLM 2012).

When we say Black Lives Matter, we are broadening the conversation around state violence to
include all of the ways in which Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the
state.(BLM 2012).

#BlackLivesMatter is working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically and
intentionally targeted for demise,(BLM 2012).

Analysis: I believe that this piece is a wonderful starting point for my thesis. It is the
centralized page for the movement and is a verbatim source for the goals of the BLM
movement. One of the questions I still have on the movement is, what are the individuals
involved doing to fight the system, and are they taking a non-violent stance as the
supporters of King did during the civil rights movement? This piece provides evidence as to
how and why the BLM movement has taken a grasp on Americans and international
individuals. The writing, to me, was an easy read. It was very straightforward and easily

understood. There were a few words like virulent that the average reader would have to
look up, but this made for a more interesting read. Overall I believe that the piece is going
to be incorporated into my thesis paper multiple times because of how directly related it is
to the movement.

Annotated Bibliography 2:

Black Lives Matter: A Commentary on Racism and Public Health

Garca, Jennifer Jee-Lyn, and Mienah Zulfacar Sharif. "Black Lives Matter: A Commentary on
Racism and Public Health." American Journal of Public Health. American Public Health
Association, Aug. 2015. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.

Jennifer Lee-Lyn Garcia P.h.D with the Department of Health Sciences at California State
University and Mienah Zulfacar Sharif with the Department of Community Health Sciences at
the University of California, Los Angeles wrote on the impact of racism on public health. The
piece delved into the scientific evidence that has been researched to show that ethnicities that are
discriminated against typically have higher infant mortality rates as well as higher risks for heart
disease, depression and obesity. This journal was written to a more educated health-related
community. Garcia and Zulfacar define racism as, a system of structuring opportunity and
assigning value based on race, that unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities,.
They propose their argument that minorities such as blacks that are impacted by the effects of
racism the most have shorter lifespans than a typically privileged white person. The argument is
then supported through the incorporation of the social injustices that the Black Lives Matter
movement emphasizes. There are three conclusions that the piece closes with: We have (1)

emphasized racism as a key fundamental cause of health that is crucial in the work of any public
health professional, (2) discussed the importance of distinguishing between race and racism in
public health work, and (3) described how racism goes beyond any isolated incident because it is
structural. No wonder racism leads to death in those it is perpetuated against.

Other quotes: Mass incarceration of people of color further exemplifies how structural factors,
such as racial inequity and discriminatory practices within our criminal justice system,
perpetuate racialized health disparities. Current estimates are that one in three Black men will be
behind bars at some point in their lifetime.

Racism goes beyond individual attitudes or interpersonal exchanges and extends to structural
factors such as institutional policies and societal norms.

We argue that addressing racism is central to eliminating racialized health disparities, and
therefore, should be central to public health research and practice.

Analysis: This piece was a little dry for my taste but it proved to have some interesting
information. I never thought of racism as a threat to public health, but it has proved to be
yet another harmful result of conservative thinking. It amazes me that this connection has
been made, because I have never thought of the implications of structural racism in this
way. The target audience was definitely angled towards a pool of intellectuals, but the
writing could be read by an average person as well.

Annotated Bibliography 3:

Black Lives Matter: A New Movement Takes Shape

Petersen-Smith, Khury. "Black Lives Matter." Black Lives Matter. International Socialist Review,
Jan. 2015. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.

Khury Petersen-Smith, activist and longtime member of the BLM movement writes on the
dynamics of the new movement against police violence and its place in United States history.
Petersen starts by describing the origins of the movement, The movement follows in a tradition
of Black struggles in the United States whose impacts far exceed the numbers of people involved
and go well beyond their point of origin. The civil rights revolt, for example, cracked open the
Cold War conservatism of the McCarthy era and inspired more than a decade of mass social
struggle on many other fronts.. By stating this he implies that the BLM movement is simply
another facet of the Civil Rights Movement, which never ended. The statement also introduces the
idea of intersectionality, meaning that oppressive institutions are interconnected and cannot be
dealt with separately. Throughout the piece Petersen elaborates on the struggles the movement has
encountered, While the resistance has inspired a new radicalization, it has also polarized society.
Racist forces are beginning their own mobilization in response to the protests. Chief among these
are police organizations, such as the St. Louis Police Officers Association, which has defended
Darren Wilson and the cops actions repressing protest in the streets of Ferguson,. Petersen goes
on to encourage future activists to stand tall against oppression.

Other quotes: The front lines of structural racism against Black people are mass incarceration
and police killings that take place on average every twenty-eight hours in the United States,

The activists who are leading the movement are clear that it is not a question of this or that bad
cop, but the system as a whole,

The decades-long project of dismantling welfare, for example, was sold at its beginning with the
demonization and caricature of Black women as welfare queens. While the virtual elimination
of welfare has had a disproportionate and disastrous impact on poor Black people, it has also been
devastating for poor white people, who actually comprise the majority of welfare recipients,

Analysis: This piece was incredibly helpful in understanding the movement as a whole. It
was written by one of the movements leaders, making it credible. Though the piece is biased
in favor of the BLM movement, you will find that I have also found pieces that are against
it. I feel that by doing this I will be able to express both sides of the spectrum. Petersen
obviously wrote to the supporters and the opposers of the movement. I felt like he was
attempting to explain the motives behind the constant protests that plague our news
broadcasts. I felt like his writing was level-headed and passionate at the same time, one
could say that his level-headedness was overpowered by his passion at some points, but
overall the writing was clear and concise.

Annotated Bib 4:

Black Lives Matters Agenda is Costing Lives

Barone, Michael. "Black Lives Matters Agenda Is Costing Black Lives."National Review Online.
National Review, 08 Sept. 2015. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.

Michael Barone, conservative political analyst, and senior political analyst for the Washington
Examiner has been in the political science field for over 20 years. Barone writes about how the
Black Lives Matter movement has been working against its core values, the preservation of
black lives. He suggests that some of the demands of the movement have already been put into
place hundreds of years ago by our constitution, Consider the BLM demands. Some are
anodyne. Who is against better training for police officers? We already have independent
(usually elected) prosecutors. The law already limit(s) the use of force by police.. Barone
supports this claim and the claim that BLM is working against itself by injecting credible
statistics into his writing, Even the New York Times has noticed. So far this year, murders are
up 76 percent in Milwaukee, 60 percent in St. Louis, 56 percent in Baltimore, and 44 percent in
Washington, D.C,. Overall the argument that is most prevalent in this article is that the Black
Lives Matter movement is asking for already instituted laws and that the increased amount of
murders in various cities is the result of increased tensions between the black community and
local police forces.

Other quotes: In Baltimore, the death of Freddie Gray after slipping into a coma in a police van
in April inspired mass protests and apparently prompted police to abandon active patrolling;
arrests suddenly plunged 60 percent below 2014 rates. (Barone)

Those insisting that black lives matter and shouting down politicians such as former
Baltimore Mayor Martin OMalley for saying all lives matter are apparently unfazed by
this shocking increase in black deaths. (Barone)

Last December, after the protests of the death in custody of a man on Staten Island, two New
York Police Department officers were shot and killed in Brooklyn. (Barone)

Analysis: This was an easy read and it gave an opposing viewpoint for my paper. I have
been told that it is a good idea to provide multiple aspects to any issue that I write about to
make myself more reasonable, and I believe that the information in this article will give
that credibility to my paper. Overall I believe that Barones writing was tailored to a more
conservative group of people, but it is nonetheless applicable to liberals attempting to
understand the viewpoint as well.

Annotated Bib 5:

The Numbers are in: Black Lives Matter is Wrong About Police

French, David. "The Numbers Are In: Black Lives Matter Is Wrong about Police." National
Review Online. National Review, 29 Dec. 2015. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.

David French, attorney and staff writer at the National Review, writes about how the radical
narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement has harshly impacted our trust in law
enforcement. The article is based mostly off of a research editorial done by the post that outlines
every single police shooting to ever occur, In response to the allegations of Black Lives Matter
activists, the Washington Post launched an unprecedented, case-by-case study of police
shootings. After a year of research, the data are in, and they confirm the conservative position:
The police use force mainly to protect human life, the use of force against unarmed suspects is
rare, and the use of force against black Americans is largely proportional to their share of the
violent crime rate,. The conclusions of this study were that our police do not discriminate as
much as we believe they do. French goes on to state that police officers that are corrupt deserve
nothing less than the due process of low and prosecution, but the number of these cases are
incredibly low.

Other quotes: Criminals are overwhelmingly male (police killed very few women this year, but
no one argues that law enforcement is sexist), and violent criminals are disproportionately black.
In fact, blacks commit homicide at close to eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics
combined. (French)

In 2014, for example, while black Americans constituted only about 13 percent of the
population, they represented a majority of the homicide and robbery arrests. (French)

The report does highlight areas where law-enforcement agencies could do better improved
training in handling fleeing or mentally ill suspects could save lives, for example and while
police are generally responsible in the use of force, that doesnt mean that all use of force is
lawful. (French)

Analysis: Like the previous article, this one was written for a more conservative pool of
individuals. Although liberals may read this to gain a better understanding of the opposing
side, it is unlikely. This was a good piece to increase my credibility in my thesis paper. I
believe that by providing multiple points of view I will seem unbiased to the reader. I plan
on using this literature at different points in my writing to highlight the differences
between BLM supporters and those who oppose the movement.

Annotated Bib 6:

Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement

Herbert, Ruffin G., II. "Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement | The
Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed."BLMr: The Growth of a New Social Justice
Movement | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed. Black Past, 01 Jan. 2015.
Web. 28 Mar. 2016.

Herbert Ruffin, Syracuse University historian, has been studying the dynamics of social
movements for the majority of his career. Ruffins writing outlines the progression of the Black
Lives Matters movement without bias. He begins by explaining how the hashtag came about that
made the movement explode on social media, Garza wrote a Facebook post which she titled A
Love Note to Black People calling on them to get active, get organized, and fight back. For
Garza, the injustice targeting black people was a disease called institutional racism that could not
be defeated by just voting, being educated, and pulling oneself up with strapless boots. She
ended by telling her readers that she loves them and that Our Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter.
Cullors responded to the post with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Tometi added her support
and a new organization was born. (Ruffin) He goes on to emphasize some of the key turning
points of the movement, On November 28, 2014, Black Lives Matter adopted a new protest
tactic that soon gained national attention. On that day, Black Lives Matter activists joined with

other grassroots organizations like Oaklands BlackOutCollective to disrupt successfully holiday

season shopping in San Francisco-Bay Area malls and Walmart stores. (Ruffin) This moment
was vital to the spread of the BLM message, it was what has brought the movement to ground
action. The piece closes with Ruffin expressing his support for the non-violent ways in which the
movement has spread its message.

Other quotes: The Black Lives Matter Movement has been successful in creating a new
mechanism for non-violently addressing racial inequality in twenty-first century America. Its
organizational structure builds on the legacy of earlier reform campaigns, including the civil
rights/black power movement, Pan Africanism, Africana womanism, the LGBT movement, and
the Occupy Wall Street movement while using cyber activism to promote its agenda. (Ruffin)

On July 18, Black Lives Matter members disrupted the NetRoots national annual convention of
progressive cyber activists in Phoenix, Arizona. They publicly challenged Marylands former
governor, Martin OMalley, a candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, when
he stated All lives matter. He quickly retracted his words after Black Lives Matter activists
persuaded him that statements like that, while appearing innocent and fair, in fact marginalize the
campaign to focus attention on the lives that all too often in this nation have not mattered
impoverished African Americans and other people of color.(Ruffin)

On July 13, 2015, Sandra Bland was taken into custody near Prairie View University near
Houston, Texas, after she was stopped by Brian Encinia, a Texas State trooper. She later died
under mysterious circumstances in the Waller County Jail. (Ruffin)

Analysis: This article was helpful in explaining how BLM has internationally increased its
influence. Ive found that this piece will help me in my writing by giving me a credible
source to explain the evolution of the movement to my readers. I am very excited to
integrate this source into my thesis because of how much valuable information it holds. I
plan on using it to base my evaluation of the movement on. I believe that the target
audience for this piece was scholarly individuals looking to do more research on current
social movements. It was nicely written and followed a chronological path. I loved how the
ideas in this article flowed into one another.

Annotated Bib 7:

I Was a Civil Rights Activist in the 1960s. But Its Hard for Me to Get behind Black Lives
Matter

Reynolds, Barbara. "I Was a Civil Rights Activist in the 1960s. But Its Hard for Me to Get
behind Black Lives Matter." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2015. Web.
30 Mar. 2016.

Barbara Reynolds, former editor and columnist for USA Today, writes about how she does not
support the way in which the Black Lives Matter movement has put their ideologies into action.
Reynolds, past civil rights activists believes that the movement is taking the wrong approach to
making a change in the United States, In the 1960s, activists confronted white mobs and
police with dignity and decorum, sometimes dressing in church clothes and kneeling in prayer
during protests to make a clear distinction between who was evil and who was good.

But at protests today, it is difficult to distinguish legitimate activists from the mob actors who
burn and loot. The demonstrations are peppered with hate speech, profanity, and guys with
sagging pants that show their underwear. Even if the BLM activists arent the ones participating
in the boorish language and dress, neither are they condemning it. (Reynolds) Her clear
disapproval of the methods the movement is fond of says a lot about how BLM looks to the
elderly. She is insinuating that the individuals in the movement are not being taken seriously
because of their unprofessional appearances. Reynolds goes on to state how her generation
gained respect from country leaders, The 1960s movement also had an innate respectability
because our leaders often were heads of the black church, as well. Unfortunately, church and

spirituality are not high priorities for Black Lives Matter (Reynolds) The obvious differences
between the two movements could be a reason as to why the current has not proven to be as
successful as its former.
Other quotes: In social movements of the past, black meant male and women meant white,
but BLM is unapologetically refusing to let the plight of black women go unnoticed
(Reynolds)
Still, the movement has remained too narrow in its focus. I understand why, as a new
movement, BLM has focused on black pain and suffering. But to win broader appeal, it must
work harder to acknowledge the humanity in the lives of others. (Reynolds)
To reach their common goal of ending this unequal treatment, baby boomers and millennials
must overcome their differences and pair the experience of the old with the energy of the young
to change a criminal justice system that has historically abused both. (Reynolds)
Analysis: Wow. I find that this piece is so very insightful. I was surprised when I found a
piece written by an individual that participated in the Civil Rights Movement. This was
obviously written to address and critique current activists in the modern movement. I feel
like this provides a unique point of view to add into my thesis. I am very excited to look
into more individuals like this and maybe compare the modern day movement to the Civil
Rights movement in the 60s. I encourage that my readers look into this source and read it
because of how unique it is. Overall I loved the tone of this and it was an easy read.
Reynolds was not afraid to assert her beliefs and I look up to her for doing that. Her many
years of experience really come through in this piece, please read it!