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Jul 21, 2020 · Swain alluded to Black Lives Matter’s three co-founders, who are still featured prominently on the group’s website — Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Their primary backgrounds...
Sep 24, 2020 · 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 of BLM get wrong,...
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] She is the former executive director of the United States' first national immigrant rights organization for people ...
- August 15, 1984 (age 39)
- Activist, writer
- American
Jun 3, 2020 · A sociologist examines the so-called pillars of whiteness that prevent white Americans from confronting racism. The Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi on what it would mean to defund...
- Isaac Chotiner
BBC. I think our movements are showing a whole other way is possible. Opal Tometi. BLM co-founder. The BLM trio welcomed the acknowledgement of this by Kamala Harris, who has made history as...
Jul 13, 2016 · NPR's Ari Shapiro talked with three of the founders — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi — about the cultural shift they've seen in the past three years, the frustration that's ...
Jan 27, 2021 · The next day, they reached out to another fellow activist, Opal Tometi, who focused on immigration issues. She was more in-tune with social media, which had become a place for activism during...
