ABSTRACT
This research discusses the Black Lives Matter movement as a progress of African-American movements in addressing racial inequality issues against the black people. The race issues that are discussed in this research relate to the emergence of the term post-racial after Obama’s election as the United States president, which further highlights the inequality that African-Americans experience. In this research, post-racial refers to the racial problem’s myth and framework that appear after Barack Obama was elected as the president. By applying historical and sociological approach methods, this qualitative research focuses on the development of the Black Lives Matter movement since it was initiated in 2013 until 2015, whereby a campaign using the ‘black lives matter’ hashtag spread throughout cyberspace. By contextualising the Black Lives Matter movement in the history of the African-American movement, this research shows that Black Lives Matter’s views and actions are more inclusive than those of the previous movements; in other words, this movement operates within an intersectional relationship with the other black people movements, namely the black feminist movement and the black LGBT movement. This involvement also puts Black Lives Matter forward as the new black people movement that lifted a boundary against other minority groups that are historically overlooked.
