The Three Women Behind The Black Lives Matter Movement | MadameNoire
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi co-founded the Black Lives Matter Movement when George Zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. They created the hashtag, which spread like wildfire. “This isn’t the beginning of a movement, this is the continuation of a struggle that’s been happening for at least 400 years,” […]