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Patrisse Marie Khan-Cullors Brignac [1] ( née Cullors-Brignac; born June 20, 1983) is an American activist, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, artist and writer. Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 and has written and spoken widely about the movement. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison ...
Tometi, with community organizers, Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza, founded Black Lives Matter (BLM) in 2013. Originally, Garza wrote a Facebook post in response to George Zimmerman's acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin. In a response to the post, Cullors used #blacklivesmatter for the first time.
Artist Patrisse Cullors poses in front of her sculpture “A Prayer to the Iyami” at her studio, Friday, March 24, 2023, in Los Angeles. Cullers wore the sculpture for a performance during a ...
Anderson was the cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors. [ 257 ] The releasing of camera footage regarding the death of Tyre Nichols in January 2023 led to protests in Memphis . Al Sharpton of the National Action Network spoke on the matter upon the release of bodycam footage.
Patrisse Cullors really screamed “defund the racist white police” in black neighborhoods, then moved to an all-white neighborhood and privately hired white men to police her multi-million ...
Our lives matter,” wrote Garza, to which her pal Patrisse Cullors replied, “#blacklivesmatter.” Garza, Cullors, and pal Opal Tometi teamed up to form the BLM movement. Today, BLM has ...
There are few people in Los Angeles who straddle the worlds of political activism, Hollywood and art the way Patrisse Cullors does. A co-founder of Black Lives Matter — the movement that arose ...
The post would inspire Garza's friend Patrisse Cullors to create the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on July 15, 2013. Garza and Cullors would reach out to their associate Opal Tometi to help establish Tumblr and Twitter accounts using the hashtag and where users could share relevant personal stories. Garza put the "Black Lives Matter" slogan on ...