Mic released a video on its Facebook page today of 23 celebrities, including Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Kevin Hart, and Beyoncé, who spoke about #23ways black people have died for being black in America.
1.Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, died in police custody on July 13, 2015, after being stopped for failing to signal a lane change.
2.Thirty-two-year-old Philando Castile was fatally shot by police on July 6, 2016 after reaching for his wallet. His girlfriend live-streamed the shooting with her 4-year-old daughter in the backseat.
3.Eighteen-year-old Ramarley Graham was shot by police on Feb. 2, 2012 after officers entered his grandmother's apartment in the Bronx, New York.
4.Forty-three-year-old Eric Garner died after police officers put him in an illegal chokehold for selling cigarettes.
5.Twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant was shot by BART police in Oakland on Jan. 1, 2009 after being detained by police.
6.Fifty-eight-year-old Gregory Gunn was by shot, tased, and beaten by police on the early morning of Feb. 25, 2016 after walking home from a friend's house.
7.Twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray died April 19, 2015 after being taken into police custody. Autopsy reports say he died from a spinal cord injury.
8.Thirty-seven-year-old Alton Sterling was fatally shot by police while pinned to the ground on July 5, 2016 for selling CDs.
9.Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, 2012 after walking home from a convenience store.
10.Twenty-six-year-old Mario Woods was shot more than 20 times when he was stopped by police for holding a knife.
11.Seventeen-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by police.
12.Forty-three-year-old Samuel Dubose was unarmed when he was fatally shot by a University of Cincinnati police officer during a traffic stop for missing a front license plate.
13.Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by police because he was holding a toy gun.
14.Fifty-year-old Walter Scott was shot from the back by police on April 4, 2015; after a traffic stop for a brake light. He was unarmed.
15.Twenty-three-year-old Sean Bell was fatally shot by police after they fired 50 bullets at his bachelor party the night before his wedding. He and his friends were unarmed.
16.Twenty-eight-year-old Akai Gurley was shot by police on Nov. 20, 2014.
17.Nineteen-year-old Renisha McBride was fatally shot on Nov. 2, 2013 after getting into a car accident. She walked to a neighbor's house to call for help and was fatally shot by the owner of the house.
18.Twenty-five-year-old India Beaty was gunned down by police officers on March 20, 2016 for holding a fake gun.
