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Black Lives Matter protest
From Concord, California; Tutuila, American Samoa; to Auckland, New Zealand — Samoa News covered & participated in the Black Lives Matter rallies and protests over the past weeks in support of removing ‘knees from our necks’ through community participation in making changes, not only by...
 “All lives matter. Faavalevalea. Focus on our own issues FIRST. Why don’t they just protest our local government instead?” Such responses were among the most common seen on shared posts across social media or commented on local news coverage in response to media coverage of a “peaceful...
American Samoa for Black Lives Matter poster for Saturday walk
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa News is committed to acknowledging the Black Lives Matter” movement, in American Samoa as well as globally. Systemic racism is very much a part of our lives in our community — here, the U.S.A, and globally. It’s the glass ceiling that each of us has experienced, is...
This past Saturday, American Samoa witnessed a road side wave of a group of youthful men and women. It wasn’t a wave for a campaign candidate or a fundraising function as we often would see on Saturday afternoons. It was a wave of a group of young spirited adolescents expressing solidarity and...
Leiataua Family members with Samoa for Black Lives Matter signs
Members of the Leiataua Family from Compton, California participate at a Black Lives Matter march in Southern California. Young adults in American Samoa are planning a Black Lives Matter march next weekend. Event organiser Marissa Afuola said while the territory is Covid-19 free and away from the...
Colin Kaepernick kneels
(AP) — Colin Kaepernick was a second-round draft pick in 2011. The next year he led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl. By 2016, he had begun kneeling on the sideline at games during the national anthem to protest social injustice and police brutality. Soon after, he was gone from the NFL,...
Black Lives Matter protest group in Auckland.
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — The killing by police of unarmed black man George Floyd in the US has galvanised activism around the world including an outpouring of support from the Pasifika community in New Zealand. Advocates say Pacific people can relate to the targeting and harassment by police that...