BLM Activist Group Holds Nationwide ‘Week of Action’ In Schools

The Black Lives Matter movement has extended its reach into schools across America. Black Lives Matter at School (BLMAS) has hosted a “Week of Action” in schools across America since at least 2019. This year, the Week of Action will take place from Feb. 5 to Feb. 9 and the theme is “collective action.” Public schools in 18 states and the District of Columbia will participate in the event, according to a map on the BLMAS website. The states include California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. BLMAS says on its website that it’s dedicated to “deep revolutionary transformational politics, opposition to neoliberalism, corporate reforms in education, defend and transform unions, Black queer feminist anti-capitalist politics, abolitionist politics and approach to restorative and transformative justice.”...