Early history: Trayvon Martin shooting BLM was cofounded in 2013 as an online movement (using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media) by three Blackcommunityorganizers—Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi. They formed BLM afterGeorge Zimmerman, a man of German and Peruvi...
Black Lives Matter Movement History On February 26th, 2012, Trayvon Martin's brutal murder sparked the beginning of what would become the BLM movement. Martin was a 17-year-old Black boy who was simply walking to his local convenience store in Sanford, Florida to purchase Skittles and a ...
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The Black Lives Matter Global Network would not be recognized worldwide had it not been for the folks in St. Louis and Ferguson who put their bodies on the line all those years ago and who continue, day in and day out, to show up for Black lives. ...
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Chris has a master's degree in history and teaches at the University of Northern Colorado. Black Lives Matter is an activist group at the center of the Black Lives Matter movement, which seeks to expose institutional systems of violence targeted against Black and Brown populations. It originated...