The #BlackLivesMatter, or #BLM, movement was founded in 2012 by Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and Alicia Garza after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin. The hashtag was first used on the social media platform Twitter to call attention to the injustice of the ...
Black Lives Matter was started in 2013 by Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza. These three individuals started the movement in response to the clearing of George Zimmerman who was on trial for shooting a 17 year old African American young man, Trayvon Martin. Since then, there ha...
The social media platform Twitter platform has played a crucial role in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The immediate, flexible nature of tweets plays a crucial role both in spreading information about the movement’s aims and in organizing indivi
The Black Lives Matter movement hasn't come without its share of criticism. Some have called it anti-police, others anti-white; the majority of criticism has come from those on social media. The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag sparked another controversial hashtag as well, #AllLivesMatter. "I thou...
President Barack Obama praised the Black Lives Matter movement as “really effective in bringing attention to problems,” which is a sentiment artists and filmmakers like Ryan Coogler, Justin Simien, Ava DuVernay and Beyonce Knowles have enacted through their work. Whether exposing police brutality an...
Nike promisesto donate $40 million over the course of four years to social justice organizations that support the Black Lives Matter movement. Food brands McDonalds Fast-food giant McDonalds is committing $1 million to the NAACP and the National Urban League, according toBusiness Insider. ...
What is the Black Lives Matter movement and why is it so important? The key dates in the history of Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter community stands on the shoulders of giants, but like any movement, ours is a product of the times. Tools for mass communication and digital social networks changed the way ideas travel. Digital video and audio forced the world to confront the state violence and white ...
The Black Lives Matter movement came to the attention of the world after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman. Student activists took the lead in the protests in cities in the U.S. and across the world. Today many students are still prominent in the BLM movement. Students...
Since 2013, “Black Lives Matter” has eclipsed the organization that coined the phrase and hashtag. It’s more than a slogan or an entity: It’s a full-blown social movement. “I don’t know if we imagined that it was going to blow up as much as it did,” Garza says. “When ...