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BLM
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blm blm.
Translingual
Symbol
1 3 Saint Barthélemy 2007
mul BL ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 alpha-2
English
Black Lives Matter
Bureau of Land Management
Noun
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en pharmaceutical drug en bleomycin.
Proper noun
en US en w:Bureau of Land Management: an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering public lands, created in 1946.
en 2018 w:Richard Powers w:The Overstory Vintage (2019) 176 The latrines and community showers are sinful indulgences, compared to her BLM cabin, with its frigid sponge baths on the porch at night.
en w:Black Lives Matter: an international human rights movement, originated in 2013 within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.
Douglas Murray Boris Johnson has utterly failed to back up his anti-woke rhetoric with action https://web.archive.org/web/20231225172431/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/09/boris-johnson-has-utterly-failed-back-anti-woke-rhetoric-action/ 2022-01-09 The June 2020 protest at which the Bristol slave-trader and philanthropist's statue was brought down was a BLM protest. But none of the defendants were black. Rather, as you can tell from their names (including Milo Ponsford and Sage Willoughby) they were almost comically typical of a certain rah, right-on Bristol type.
en 2024 w:Naomi Klein w:Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World 2023 Vintage 60 https://books.google.com/books?id=aMsLEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA60&dq=%22grieftech%22&hl=&cd=6&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q&f=false 978-1-0390-0691-1 But then came the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings. “My friends all told me I had to get back on Instagram and post pro-BLM,” she said, “or everyone would think I was racist”—this despite the fact that she had been participating in all the protests in her area, albeit in a quiet, behind-the-scenes way.
Derived terms
en BLMer
Phrase
phr
en black lives matter.
en WLM ALM PLM
Anagrams
en blm LBM LMB MBL MLB lbm
en Ethnicity Social justice