About

Learn Their Stories was created in June 2020 after the tragic death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of police. To create awareness on how disproportionally Black people are murdered by law enforcement, I started writing profiles describing the lives they lived. In the profiles, I wanted to focus on how they were as people, not just how they died. I wanted to shed light on such a deeply rooted and normalized aspect of this country.

The more research I did, the more I realized how few of these cases are common knowledge to most. Hundreds, if not thousands of Black people have been murdered by police in the last 100 years. Even of the names we know, we hardly know how these victims lived, the people they affected, and the accomplishments they had. It is critical to learn the long list of names and stories to better understand that these victims were humans and not just names.

The goal for the website is for it to eventually become a comprehensive database of all the Black lives lost to police and to better understand the lives of these victims and the effects of their heartbreaking deaths.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

About the Creator: Lucas Fenton is a 25-year-old graduate from Clark University in Worcester, MA. who majored in Media, Culture, and the Arts and was born and raised in New York City.