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4 days ago · In fact, without women, the BLM movement wouldn’t exist. BLM was founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi: 3 women. Disney Plus, if you’re listening, I’ll watch all the documentaries I can get, but i’ll especially take this one. Give the women their flowers.
4 days ago · The Black Lives Matter (#BlackLivesMatter) movement building project was founded by three Black women: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi in 2013. This page contains resources to research the history, platforms, organizing tools, and political interventions coming out of this movement.
- Tierney Gleason
- 2012
6 days ago · In this TED Talk interview (TedTalk on YouTube, 16 minutes 5 seconds), the founders of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi discuss the lessons they have learned from organizing with BLM and what gives them hope for the future of fight for Black lives.
- Shawn Smith-Cruz
- 2020
6 days ago · In 2013, when Trayvon Martin's killer went free, Patrisse's outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the ...
4 days ago · The vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence was relatively milquetoast. Just the way a guy like Pence likes it. The most scintillating moment happened when a fly landed atop Pence’s dippity-dooed head and stayed there for the better part of two minutes, invoking exactly what you’d expect, a truck load of memes and tweets and one-off bits, including a moderately ...
3 days ago · Alicia Garza. Alicia Garza created #blacklivesmatter along with social justice workers Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi after George Zimmerman was found “not guilty” for the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2013.
4 days ago · Pasco police officers shot and killed a 47-year-old man, who allegedly charged at them with a machete on Thursday night. Salih Beslic of Pasco was identified as the suspect who confronted officers ...
