For months, the Nashville chapter of Black Lives Matter had been meeting at the North Branch Library in Nashville, Tennessee at the exclusion of white people. Library officials had assumed during that time that their meetings had been made open to the public, until one library customer alerted officials of a meeting advertisement indicating that white people were not invited. Library officials then notified the Black Lives Matter group of the public library’s policy about meetings, namely that they are to be open to the public and the news media, and the group may not exclude anyone.
This news outraged the Black Lives Matter activists, and they decided to relocate to a Methodist church nearby where they reiterated that only “black or non-black people of color” were allowed to participate. They attributed the public library’s policy to “white supremacy in our local government.” Here’s their Facebook post alerting activists of the location change: