Black Lives Matter Documentary Analysis

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There is a Civil Rights Movement going on today. There are multiple different groups of people that are discriminated against and they are trying to prove that they should be given the same opportunities and treated equally, similarly to the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The three groups of people my documentary will be about is the discrimination of black people, homosexuals and transgenders, and the suppression of the beliefs of christians. Each group has been treated unfairly for reasons of race and religion. So my documentary is going to show how they are fighting to be given equal rights and showing people that there is a Civil Rights movement going on today that may be dealing with different subjects, but the goals are …show more content…

I will interview people who took part in the Black Lives Matter movement, people who are apart of the LGBT group, and members of the ACLJ because they represent christians in court who have been denied their right to express their faith freely. I want to interview them because they will be able to give people an up close and personal perspective of the problems and the experience of being so close to the issue. Members of the Black Lives Matter movement have accumulated many followers to shine a light on the problem on the way people of color live’s are valued and wants people to take responsibility for allowing there to be such tragic deaths for the wrong reasons. One way that had become a very controversial way to protest was professional athletes refusing to stand for the national anthem because they wanted to bring about change. Similarly, LGBT groups rallied together so that they could have the same rights to education and without fear of being bullied. They eventually were able to bring enough attention to have the Non Discrimination Act come in to play to help protect them. Christians have also been denied entry to colleges because they openly discussed their faith according Matthew Clark in his article talking about multiple students who had been rejected from college. These students were represented in court by the ACLJ to stand up for their rights to freedom of

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