Who are Black Lives Matter?Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an organized movement advocating for non-violent civil disobedience. These are in protest against incidents of police brutality against African-American people. An organization known simply as Black Lives Matter exists as a decentralized network with about 16 chapters in the United States and Canada, while a larger Black Lives Matter movement exists consisting of various separate like-minded organizations. The broader movement and its related organizations typically advocate against police violence towards black people, as well as for various other policy changes considered to be related to black liberation. The overall Black Lives Matter movement is a decentralized network of activists with no formal hierarchy. An estimated 15-26 million people participated in the 2020 Black Lives Matters protests in the United States, making Black Lives Matters one of the largest movements in U.S. history. The movement has advocated to defund the police and invest directly into Black communities and alternative emergency response models.
Who is Umar Johnson?Umar Johnson is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and Certified School Psychologist. Johnson specializes in working with the parents of African-American children who receive special education and/or are diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders.
What is Homosexual?Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the same sex. It also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions.
What is LGBT?LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. Activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred. The initialism has become adopted into the mainstream media as an umbrella term for use when labeling topics pertaining to sexuality and gender identity.