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ALTHOUGH the Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign has been around since 2013 many only started crying about what was happening to black people after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Many of these new converts to black liberation suddenly tripped over themselves saying just how much our lives had always mattered to them. Not that there was often much evidence of it but better late to the party than not to come at all.
Black activists were in demand for advice on what these folks could do to help and for the best books to read so they could get better educated about the struggle.
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