{"id":49639,"date":"2018-07-15T02:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T00:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/15\/common-struggle-black-lives-matter-leader-talks-of-painful-parallels-with-indigenous-australia\/"},"modified":"2018-07-15T02:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T00:20:20","slug":"common-struggle-black-lives-matter-leader-talks-of-painful-parallels-with-indigenous-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=49639","title":{"rendered":"Common struggle: Black Lives Matter leader talks of painful parallels with Indigenous Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countries can acknowledge their histories without being captive to them, says Hawk Newsome, who is visiting SydneyThe death of black teenager Travyon Martin \u2013 shot six years ago by a neighbourhood watch volunteer who thought he looked suspicious in a hoodie \u2013 sparked three words on a Facebook post, Black Lives Matter. Since then, there has been progress and frustration in the name of the cause.\u201cThe situation has worsened,\u201d Hawk Newsome, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Greater New York says, speaking in Sydney on the sixth anniversary of Martin\u2019s death. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jul\/15\/common-struggle-black-lives-matter-leader-talks-of-painful-parallels-with-indigenous-australia\" target=\"_blank\">Common struggle: Black Lives Matter leader talks of painful parallels with Indigenous Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries can acknowledge their histories without being captive to them, says Hawk Newsome, who is visiting SydneyThe death of black teenager Travyon Martin \u2013 shot six years ago by a neighbourhood watch volunteer who thought he looked suspicious in a hoodie \u2013 sparked three words on a Facebook post, Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}