Black women's vital role in social change often goes unrecognized, but their leadership and activism continue to drive progress.
“They couldn’t break me by arresting me,” Levy Armstrong said, “so they doctored an image to show the world a false iteration of that time to make me look weak.”
Besides Don Lemon, federal agents arrested Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort — who went live on Facebook — and Jamael Lydell Lundy.
Federal agents arrested Don Lemon on thursday in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards according to his attorney.
The White House posted an image of Nekima Levy Armstrong in which they made it appear she was crying when she was arrested on Thursday.
Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and social justice activist and organizer, was arrested along with two others for Sunday's protest.
On Sunday, journalist Don Lemon was reporting on a protest that took place in a St. Paul church where a pastor was revealed to be working for ICE.
Rev. Jamal Bryant, who called for a 40-day Target boycott earlier this year, has called the donation a “slap in the face.”