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"Once you see the injustice in the world, you can't do anything else but this."

Generation Revolution follows the journey of Black Lives Matter activists in London, presenting a valuable new angle on the challenges they face in fighting for their rights on the streets.

By Billy Sawyers
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Black Lives Matter activist. Courtesy of Generation Revolution.

Black Lives Matter activist. Courtesy of Generation Revolution.

If you haven’t yet heard of the London Black Revolutionaries, you will almost certainly have heard of their activism. Remember in 2014, when thousands marched on the US embassy after Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri? Or the ‘I Can’t Breathe’ die-in protest in Westfield shopping centre, which was staged in response to the unjust death of another black man, Eric Garner, at police hands? The Black Revs were key organisers of both.

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