Tag: Black protest

graph showing mix of issues in different source types for Black protests

Black Protests of 1990s and 2000s in Black Newspapers vs Mainstream Newswires

May 21, 2024 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

My research team just posted a working paper that compares Black newspapers and mainstream newswires in their coverage of Black American protest events. In this paper we are just trying to lay out the big patterns we see in the data so we can do more work to refine the

Black Protests in the US, 1994-2010

November 30, 2021 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

Although many discussions imply nothing happened between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter, we find that Black protests in the 1990s and 2000s seem continuous with what came later.

News Coverage of Black Protest II: Movement in the Doldrums

January 24, 2017 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

SEE CORRECTION People who are not Black activists often believe that the Black movement went away after the late 1960s, either because it won or because people just gave up. And the available data certainly shows a steep decline in Black protest events as covered by the New York Times.