BLM Cleveland

06/25/2026

Statement from Black Lives Matter Cleveland Honoring Tamir Rice on His 24th Birthday

Today, Black Lives Matter Cleveland pauses to honor and remember Tamir Rice on what would have been his 24th birthday.

Tamir should be here.

He should be celebrating life, growing into adulthood, dreaming freely, laughing with his family, and building the future that was stolen from him. Instead, Cleveland continues to carry the grief of a 12-year-old child killed by police while playing in a park — a child whose life became a national symbol of the violence, neglect, and systemic failure that Black communities have endured for generations.

Tamir was more than what happened to him. He was a son, a brother, a grandchild, a friend, and a child full of promise. His name must never be reduced to a headline, a court case, or a moment of outrage. His life mattered. His childhood mattered. His future mattered.

For Black Lives Matter Cleveland, Tamir’s memory is personal. His death helped ignite and deepen the movement for police accountability, community power, and justice in this city. We continue this work because Tamir deserved protection, not suspicion. He deserved care, not violence. He deserved to grow up.

On this day, we honor Tamir by recommitting ourselves to the fight for a Cleveland where Black children are safe, where families do not have to beg for justice, and where public officials are held accountable when systems fail our communities.

We also honor the continued strength, courage, and leadership of Tamir’s family, whose grief has been met with public scrutiny, institutional resistance, and years of unanswered demands. Their fight for truth and justice remains part of Cleveland’s unfinished moral obligation.

Tamir Rice should be 24 years old today.

We say his name with love.

We say his name with grief.

We say his name with purpose.

Happy heavenly birthday, Tamir.

Your life mattered then. Your life matters now. Your legacy continues to move a city, a movement, and a generation.

Black Lives Matter Cleveland

06/23/2026

For 10 years, Black Lives Matter Cleveland has served as a rapid-response, crisis-driven organization — showing up in moments of urgent community need, police violence, public harm, racial injustice, and systemic failure.

Now, as we enter our next decade, BLMCLE is transitioning from a rapid crisis-response team to a structured, programmatic organization rooted in our mission, values, and long-term community objectives.

This shift allows us to move beyond reacting to crisis alone and build sustainable programs that advance police accountability, community safety, youth education, public memory, civic engagement, and Black-led community power in Cleveland.

Your donation helps BLMCLE strengthen this next phase of work — building the infrastructure, staffing, programs, and partnerships needed to sustain Black-led organizing for the next 10 years and beyond.

For the past 10 years, Black Lives Matter Cleveland has stood on the frontlines of crisis, grief, injustice, and community resistance.Since our founding,…

06/21/2026

BLMCLE Father’s Day Statement

Today, Black Lives Matter Cleveland honors the fathers, grandfathers, stepfathers, uncles, brothers, mentors, godfathers, bonus fathers, and community fathers who continue to show up with love, protection, discipline, sacrifice, and vision.

We especially honor Black men.

Too often, Black fathers are misrepresented, overlooked, criminalized, and denied the fullness of their humanity. But in our homes, neighborhoods, movements, schools, churches, barbershops, and community spaces, we know the truth: Black fathers are builders. Black fathers are protectors. Black fathers are teachers. Black fathers are healers. Black fathers are leaders. Black fathers are love in action.

We honor the fathers who work long hours and still make time for their children.

We honor the fathers fighting to stay connected despite systems that create barriers between Black men and their families.

We honor the fathers who are grieving children they should still be able to hold.

We honor the fathers who are raising children with tenderness in a world that often demands hardness from them.

We honor the fathers who mentor young people who are not biologically theirs but still need guidance, affirmation, and protection.

We honor the fathers who are healing from their own pain while trying to break cycles for the next generation.

Fatherhood is not only about provision. It is about presence. It is about accountability. It is about covering your family and community with wisdom, care, and courage.

As BLMCLE, we recognize that honoring Black fathers also means fighting for the conditions that allow them to live, parent, work, heal, and thrive. That means defending Black men from state violence, mass incarceration, economic exclusion, racial profiling, and the policies that separate families and destabilize communities.

To every father doing his best: we see you.

To every Black man who has poured into a child, a family, a neighborhood, or a movement: we thank you.

To the fathers we have lost, and to the fathers grieving children lost too soon: we carry you with us.

Today and every day, Black Lives Matter Cleveland stands in love, respect, and solidarity with the fathers of the world — and with deep honor for Black fathers whose strength, softness, sacrifice, and leadership continue to shape our future.

Happy Father’s Day from Black Lives Matter Cleveland.

06/19/2026

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06/19/2026

Juneteenth reminds us that freedom was never simply given — it was fought for, delayed, defended, and demanded.

Today, Black Lives Matter Cleveland honors the strength, resistance, brilliance, and legacy of Black people who survived enslavement, built communities, protected one another, and continued the struggle for liberation across generations.

Juneteenth is a celebration — but it is also a call to remember that true freedom requires justice, safety, dignity, housing, education, health, accountability, and power for Black communities.

As we celebrate, we recommit ourselves to the ongoing work of liberation in Cleveland and beyond.

Happy Juneteenth from Black Lives Matter Cleveland.

On June 19, 1865 the last group of slaves in the United states were...

06/18/2026

The Cleveland City Council Public Safety Committee has voted no to a contract extension for Flock license plate readers, effectively cutting off the system at the end of the month.