Meaning of BLM | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Abbreviation of bleomycin.
   abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
2. Initialism of Bureau of Land Management: an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering public lands, created in 1946.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. Initialism of Black Lives Matter: an international human rights movement, originated in 2013 within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

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Examples

“The latrines and community showers are sinful indulgences, compared to her BLM cabin, with its frigid sponge baths on the porch at night.”

“The June 2020 protest at which the Bristol slave-trader and philanthropist's statue was brought down was a BLM protest. But none of the defendants were black. Rather, as you can tell from their names (including Milo Ponsford and Sage Willoughby) they were almost comically typical of a certain rah, right-on Bristol type.”

“But then came the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings. “My friends all told me I had to get back on Instagram and post pro-BLM,” she said, “or everyone would think I was racist”—this despite the fact that she had been participating in all the protests in her area, albeit in a quiet, behind-the-scenes way.”

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