The police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked a resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests throughout the summer of 2020, reminiscent of the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that occurred after several police killings in 2014 including the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Based on qualitative analysis of mainstream media coverage of the protests, this paper examines key themes in the discourse surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014 and 2020. Our findings highlight the ways in which mainstream news sources situate the Black Lives Matter protests within a broader history of Black uprisings. We also emphasize the erasure of violence against Black women in mainstream media depictions of the BLM movement, as well as the erasure of Black women’s leadership in the movement.

警察杀害布雷娜·泰勒和乔治·弗洛伊德引发了整个 2020 年夏天“黑人的命也是命”抗议活动的死灰复燃，这让人想起 2014 年发生的几起警察杀人事件（包括迈克尔·布朗和埃里克·加纳的死亡）之后发生的黑人命也是命抗议浪潮。基于对主流媒体对抗议活动的报道的定性分析，本文研究了 2014 年和 2020 年围绕“黑人的命也是命”运动的话语中的关键主题。我们的研究结果突出了主流新闻来源将“黑人的命也是命”抗议活动置于更广泛的范围内的方式黑人起义的历史。我们还强调消除主流媒体对 BLM 运动的描述中对黑人妇女的暴力行为，以及消除黑人妇女在该运动中的领导地位。