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Sep 24, 2020 · Opal Tometi. Photograph: Bethany Mollenkof/The Guardian. Seven years ago Tometi helped to create what is possibly the biggest protest movement in US history. She explains what the critics...
Jun 3, 2020 · Isaac Chotiner talks with Opal Tometi, a co-founder of the social-justice movement Black Lives Matter, about what the protests across the country and the globe in response to the death of...
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Activist, writer. Known for. Black Lives Matter, Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Website. www .opaltometi .org. Ayọ Tometi (born August 15, 1984), formerly known as Opal Tometi, is an American human rights activist, writer, strategist, and community organizer. [2] She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM). [3]
- August 15, 1984 (age 39)
- Activist, writer
- American
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Opal Tometi. BLM co-founder. The BLM trio welcomed the acknowledgement of this by Kamala Harris, who has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US...
Dec 22, 2020 · Culture. Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi: "Black people can’t catch a break, even in a global pandemic" In a history-making year for the BLM movement, the activist opens up about next...
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Feb 10, 2018 · Writer, activist, and immigration rights advocate Opal Tometi is best known as one of the three founders of the Black Lives Matter movement. Tometi, born in 1984 to Nigerian parents who had illegally immigrated to the United States, grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and is the oldest of three children.
Feb 1, 2021 · Opal Tometi co-founded Black Lives Matter in 2013 alongside activists Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors. Eight years later, the Black Lives Matter movement has spread around the world and just last week was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for its “achievement in raising global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice.”
