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BEVERLY A new Black Lives Matter banner will be hung on the side of First Parish Church on Sunday, a symbol of the congregations commitment to racial equality, according to its pastor, the Rev. Kelly Weisman Asprooth-Jackson.

The banner will be dedicated Sunday at 2 p.m.

It comes out of our goal of a world of justice and peace, Asprooth-Jackson said.

Nationally, Unitarian Universalist churches like First Parish have shown support for the movement; a resolution passed by the 2015 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association encouraged this.Since then, many UU churches have decided to hang banners to show their support.

Asprooth-Jackson said the congregations decision was sparked by horror and grief at how endangered the lives of black people are.

Ward 2 City Councilor Estelle Rand, who will speak at the dedication, called the move by the church timely.

There has been a lot of public activity that encourages dialogue and kind of supports our identity as an inclusive community, she said. I definitely support them putting the banner up.

First Parish has few black members, according to Asprooth-Jackson, and most of them are children, which impacted the congregations decision. They want to make sure the kids know they are loved and valued, he said.

This is not just speaking up on behalf of members, he said. This is us being committed to justice for all people.

The congregation recognizes that the banner could be subject to vandalism; a church in Reno, Nevada, has had to replace its banner multiple times.But its the message behind the banner thats significant, Asprooth-Jackson said.

The banner is a statement that reflects a commitment, he said, adding that the church will replace it if need be. The commitment is what matters to us.

How long the banner will stay up is uncertain. The easiest explanation, Asprooth-Jackson said, is when there is racial justice, but added that thats big changes.

The banner installation comes just after the citys School Committee adopted a resolution to take on a sanctuary designation.

For Rand, the recent conversations around the city are part of Beverlys identity as an inclusive community.

I think in Beverly we have a lot of thoughtful people that are willing to commit to open conversations, she said, and thats what Ive been most proud of over the last month or so.

Arianna MacNeill can be reached at 978-338-2527 or at amacneill@salemnews.com. Follow her on Twitter at @SN_AMacNeill.

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A young adult book dealing with the Black Lives Matter movement led the New York Times best seller list Friday.

The Hate U Give, written by Angie Thomas, led the best sellers list for young adult hardcover books, reports the International Business Times.

The book features 16-year-oldStarr Carter who sees a police officer shoot down her friendKhalil. Khalils death gets national attention and various people begin to degrade his character, calling him a thug and a drug-dealer.

The author celebrated her books top spot on the list in a flurry of rave reviews.

This story is necessary. This story is important, Kirkus Review said of the novel, while Publishers Weekly called it heartbreakingly topical.

The book is already being considered for a film. Fox 2000 recently gained the rights to the book and reached out to Amandla Stenberg to play the lead role.

The Black Lives Matter movement came about after the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of his shooter, George Zimmerman. Started by three black women, the movement purports to fight for freedom and justice for all black lives.

Themovement often calls for diversity, globalism and the affirming of transgender, gay and black female lives.

We are committed to building a black women affirming space free from sexism, misogyny and male centeredness, the movement claims.

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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke slammed Black Lives Matters for not having its priorities straight.

Clarke said hes baffled that Black Lives Matter is protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, when they should be in Chicago protesting the citys record black homicide rates.

Just heard Black LIES Matter is in North Dakota protesting Dakota Access Pipeline, Clarke tweeted. What the hell are they doing there? Should be in Chicago.

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Sheriff Clarke added: Blacks in the ghetto want better schools, jobs and safer neighborhoods Green is the new Black. Black LIES Matter has been forced to sell the lefts environmental agenda to stay relevant with the Democrat Party.

Clarkes Twitter followers agreed. What does a pipeline have to do with Black lives matter? What a joke! one person tweeted.

Another replied: Nothing. They go where their boss pays them to go.

Clarke and numerous Twitter users suggested that BLM is merely protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline because theyre being paid to, as operatives of leftist groups bankrolled by billionaire George Soros.

Soros gave $246 million to 100 anti-Trump groups behind this weeks Day Without a Woman protest, according to the Media Research Center. Soros is also reportedly financing many of the anti-Trump riots around the country.

Compassionate libs abandoned puppies to die in the cold.

Many on Twitter said they hope Black Lives Matter wont pollute the Dakota Access Pipeline camp site the way environmental protesters did.

Throngs of environmental activists protested the DAPL, claimingthe oil pipeline would harm the environment.

When the protesters departed, they left behind mountains of trash and abandonedpuppies, who were left to starve and freeze to death.

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Black Lives Matter Pratt (BLM Pratt) presented a teach-in, Shut Em Down, on Pratt Institutes Brooklyn campus from February 23-25. The conference aimed to bring the community together for open discussions of race and inclusion on campus and beyond. It included a full program of workshops, panel discussions and presentations, readings and performances, and film screenings by students, faculty, and community members. Established in 2016, Black Lives Matter Pratt is a group of faculty, staff, alumni, and students at Pratt working together to ensure that Black Lives Mattera national movement that values black life and recognizes the ways in which it is imperiledis an integral part of the Institutes campus culture.

This years teach-in events, which were curated and organized by alumna Mahogany L. Browne (M.F.A. Writing 16), drew roughly 400 event attendees from the Pratt community as well as the public. The conference expanded on the first BLM Pratt two-day teach-in held last year, and included more than a dozen breakout sessions focused on specific issues of activism and racial justice.

Sessions included the Empowerment Summit to promote racial well-being on the Pratt campus, focusing on artistic practice and self-care; a graduate student-led workshop on racial and social injustices inherent in urban environments sponsored by Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development in the School of Architecture; and a performance by Brotherhood Dance company that presented stories of creative activism. Other featured speakers and presenters included writer-director Shola Lynch, activist and artist Amin Husain, and poets Camonghne Felix and Clint Smith.

The teach-in was co-sponsored by several departments and offices on campus including the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Pratt Center for Community Development, Student Affairs, Communications Design, and Human Resources.

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After the All Lives Matter sign was posted in front of the library Feb. 9, Arianna Ngnomire sat in front of the Leatherby Libraries holding a sign that said But will you say it to my face? And sophomore political science major Alec Harrington, who put up the sign, showed up.

We believe that the role of a student newspaper is to accurately portray the conversations that are occurring on our campus. People wanted to know why Harrington supports All Lives Matter, and we decided to let him tell the community himself.

The publication process of his column was not a fast one. The column was sent into The Panther Feb. 22, but we refused to publish it due to numerous fact errors. Harrington came back to source his statistics, but we, as journalists, did not censor that which was his own perspective. We think that how someone chooses to interpret the facts is their opinion.

We also felt that giving Harrington a voice would be biased unless we also accurately portrayed other perspectives. So, in the same issue March 6, we published Harringtons column alongside Ngnomires column Black lives dont matter.

We realize that there is a line between free speech and racism, and that is why we spent more than an hour on the phone with Harrington and two weeks over email asking that he explain why he called Black Lives Matter protesters thugs. It is why other lines that could not be backed up by reputable sources were removed from this column, as well.

It is not our job to agree or disagree with the points of guest columns, but when Harrington stepped into the public sphere with his All Lives Matter sign, his voice became representative of a community that does exist at Chapman. We cover all parts of reality at Chapman and he is a factor in that.

There is a community at Chapman that disagrees with Harrington, as illustrated by Ngnomire, among others, and we have published their voices as well.

As The Panther, we understand that we are not free of critique and are open to addressing your concerns. Anyone is welcome to submit a column to us. We also encourage letters to the editor, which will be published too.

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