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Black Lives Matter Nominated For The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Stacey Abrams Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams has been named as a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize nominee along with former President Trump, Black Lives Matter and Jared Kushner.
The Black Lives Matter movement, which has proven itself a defining force for human rights advocacy in our time, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
The nomination was made by a Norwegian member of Parliament, Petter Eide, ac- cording to the Guardian.
Three Black women—Ali- cia Garza, Patrice Cul- lors, and Opal Tometi—founded the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013, initially with a hashtag that went viral on Twitter after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Mar- tin.
Despite backlash to the concept that Black lives mat-
ter, including from people who responded to the phrase with copy cat statements like “Blue Lives Matter” and the disingenuous “All Lives Mat- ter,” it has grown into a glob- ally recognized affirmation of
a truth that unfortunately continues to need to be said. Last year’s uprisings against racist violence in the U.S. last year also inspired similar demonstrations in other countries around the world, many of which also echoed the slogan Black Lives Matter.
In his nomination letter to the Nobel committee, Eide pointed to the widespread im- pact of the movement.
“I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of in- creasing conflict based on in- equality,” Eide said. “Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial in- justice.
ATLANTA — Atlanta voting rights activist and former Georgia gubernatorial candi- date Stacey Abrams was named Monday as a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, ac- cording to U. S. News and World Report.
Abrams, who has been widely credited with helping President Joe Biden win Georgia in the November pres- idential race against incumbent
Donald Trump, and helping Democrats take control of the U. S. Senate, was tapped for her leadership in registering voters across the state.
Lars Haltbrekken, a So- cialist Party member of Nor- way's parliament, said in a Reuters report that Abrams' work promoting nonviolent change through the ballot box made Abrams an eligible can- didate in his view.
2 FBI Agents killed, 3 Hurt In Shooting While Serving Warrant In Florida
Two FBI agents were gunned down and three others were hurt from a shooting during a search warrant execution in Sunrise, Florida, Tuesday morning, the agency said.
Two of the wounded agents were hospitalized and are in sta- ble condition, the FBI said. The third injured agent didn't need to be hospitalized, the FBI said.
The shooting took place around 6 a.m. in Sunrise, about 10 miles from Fort Lauderdale, while officers were trying to exe- cute a search warrant for a "vio- lent crimes against children case," the FBI said.
FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) President Brian
O'Hare said the search was "to seize evidence in connection with suspected possession of child pornography."
The agents knocked to an- nounce their presence but got no answer. As soon as they breached the door the agents immediately took rifle fire, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
"It sounded like 20 shots in succession," Brian, a neighbor, told ABC News. Within seconds, authorities swarmed the area, he said.
The gunman, who was the subject of the search, died of a self-inflicted gunshot, law en- forcement sources said.
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