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Sandra Bland

December 2020

  • Joyce V, 2012

    Jennifer Packer review – paintings that creep up on you

    Serpentine Gallery, London
    Friendship, loss and the everyday populate Packer’s canvases, but they are full of disquieting detail

August 2020

  • ‘We all want our daughters back’ ... Axelle Munezero dances to the poetry of jessica Care moore in Our Bodies Back

    Lockdown culture
    'I feel like she's penetrating my soul': the power of Our Bodies Back

    Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, Jonzi D’s new black-and white film powerfully weaves poetry and dance in a tribute to women who suffered violence. Its makers demand change

May 2019

  • A demonstrator holds a Sandra Bland sign during a vigil, Tuesday evening, July 28, 2015, in Chicago. Bland died in a Texas county jail after the traffic stop for failing to use a turn signal escalated into a physical confrontation. Authorities have said Bland hanged herself, a finding her family disputes. The death has garnered national attention amid increased scrutiny of police treatment of blacks in the wake of several high-profile police-involved deaths. (AP Photo/Christian K. Lee)

    Why are so many people dying in US prisons and jails?

  • A video taken by Sandra Bland in 2015 shows how a white state trooper confronted the 28-year-old black woman in a traffic stop after he says she failed to signal

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    Sandra Bland's own cellphone video surfaces from 2015 traffic stop – video

  • Sandra Bland. The video had not been publicly seen until it was aired this month by a Dallas TV station.

    Texas officials deny withholding video of Sandra Bland traffic stop

  • Funeral for Sandra Bland<br>epa04860603 A woman carries a funeral program detailing the life of Sandra Bland following her funeral service at the DuPage African Methodist Episcopal Church in Lisle, Illinois, USA, 25 July 2015. Bland, 28, was found hanged in her Waller County, Texas jail cell on 13 July after she was arrested during a traffic violation stop in Prairie View, Texas, on 10 July. The death has been ruled a suicide but family member dispute the findings. EPA/TANNEN MAURY

    Sandra Bland: video released nearly four years after death shows her view of arrest

December 2018

  • Sandra Bland was found dead in a Waller County, Texas, jail cell in 2015 after being arrested during a routine traffic stop.

    Sandra Bland: behind a poignant documentary of her life and death

    In Say Her Name, the tragic death of a woman stopped by police in 2015 is examined with troubling and frustrating results

January 2017

  • during a demonstration in Oakland, California following the grand jury decision in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri<br>A demonstrator sits in front of a street fire during a demonstration following the grand jury decision in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown, in Oakland, California November 25, 2014. The grand jury decided on Monday not to indict a white police officer over the fatal August shooting of an unarmed black teenager. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

    The long read
    Black Lives Matter: birth of a movement

    The long read: The killing of Michael Brown created a new generation of black activists, with thousands taking to the streets, and a hashtag used more than 27m times. But will the movement survive the Trump era?

November 2016

  • Mothers of the Movement … Geneva Reed-Veal, Sybrina Fulton, Gwen Carr and Valerie Bell, pictured at the Oxford Union.

    'We know what it is to bury a child' – the black mothers turning mourning into a movement

    Parents of Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell have been united by the deaths of their children. Here, they speak of their loss, the fight for black lives and their fears for Trump’s America

September 2016

  • Sandra Bland

    Sandra Bland's family settles wrongful death lawsuit against Texas for $1.9m

    Attorney for Bland’s mother told CBS News agreement was reached with the Texas department of public safety and Waller County ahead of January trial

July 2016

  • Democratic presidential nominee Clinton celebrates among balloons with her vice presidential running mate Kaine after accepting the nomination on the fourth and final night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia<br>Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton celebrates among balloons with her vice presidential running mate Senator Tim Kaine (L) after accepting the nomination on the fourth and final night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 28, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    The Democratic national convention in three minutes – video

  • Geneva Reed-Veal (2R) speaks alongside other mothers that have lost children to gun violence, part of the Mothers of the Movement group, during the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEBSAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

    Mothers affected by police and gun violence speak out at DNC – video

  • black lives matter mothers dnc

    'Mothers of the movement' channel black lives lost into support for Clinton

  • Sandra Bland

    Sandra Bland’s death: one year later 'all we can do is pray' amid week of violence

May 2016

  • Kimberlé Crenshaw, American civil rights activist. Photograph by Felix Clay

    #SayHerName: why Kimberlé Crenshaw is fighting for forgotten women

  • Zach Stafford

    Zach Stafford column
    For black mothers, mourning in public is an added burden

    Zach Stafford

April 2016

  • Demonstrators hold signs of Sandra Bland and Kindra Chapman, both of whom died in custody, during a rally against police violence in New York July 22, 2015. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

    Serious deficiencies found at jail where Sandra Bland died, says new report

  • Police

    Former Texas officer who fatally shot unarmed woman found not guilty

March 2016

  • Hillary Clinton Discusses Gun Violence At Milwaukee Church<br>MILWAUKEE, WI - MARCH 29: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (C), Annette Holt (R), and Geneva Reed-Veal (L) join hands at a Community Forum on Gun Violence Prevention held at Tabernacle Baptist Church on March 29, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Clinton is campaigning in Wisconsin ahead of the state’s April 5th primary. (Photo by Darren Huack/Getty Images)

    Hillary Clinton pledges to fight gun violence 'epidemic' at Milwaukee event

  • Brian Encinia<br>Former Texas state trooper Brian Encinia, center, leaves the courtroom after an arraignment hearing Tuesday, March 22, 2016, in Hempstead, Texas. Encinia, the fired Texas trooper, is facing arraignment on a misdemeanor perjury charge related to his arrest last summer of Sandra Bland, a black woman who was later found dead in a county jail. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

    Fired Texas trooper pleads not guilty to perjury charge in Sandra Bland's death

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