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Patrisse Cullors, a fellow activist who lived in Los Angeles and had met Garza at a conference for the Black Leadership for Organizing and Dignity, modified and summarized the message in the...
The movement was founded by three Black women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of whom identify as queer. By design, the movement they started in 2013 has remained organic, grassroots and diffuse.
In 2013, the community organizers Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and Alicia Garza started the Black Lives Matter movement. What began as a hashtag in response to Trayvon Martin’s death...
Garza and her BLM co-founders, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, spoke as part of the BBC 100 Women Masterclass 2020, a digital live event of masterclasses, big interviews and guests on 30...
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...
Following a brief sabbatical, Garza joined the National Domestic Workers Alliance, creating a program focused on Black domestic workers. [6] Shortly before that, she founded Black Lives Matter with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi.
Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi are some of the leaders, innovators, activists, entertainers, athletes and artists who defined the last century.
Cullors, along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, has transformed the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter into a grassroots, member-led network dedicated to ending anti-black racism and preventing...
Two other activists Garza knew—Opal Tometi of Phoenix and Patrisse Cullors of Los Angeles—joined the call to action, and Cullors added the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Garza’s phrase has catalyzed...
Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi are all featured on this year's BBC 100 Women list and they came together to tell the story of the origins of the movement.