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Mar 19, 2024 · In 2013, three radical Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi — created a Black-centered political-movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman.
These portraits are a testimony to human empathy, and the reach of the vast, multi-stranded Black Lives Matter movement.
Dec 7, 2022 · We present and analyze a database of 1.13 million public Instagram posts during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, which erupted in response to George Floyd’s public murder by police on May 25.
Black Lives Matter is a phrase, and notably a hashtag, used to highlight racism, discrimination and inequality experienced by black people.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement [1][2] that aims to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people and to promote anti-racism.
Jul 9, 2020 · The names most associated with Black Lives Matter are not its leaders but the victims who have drawn attention to the massive issues of racism this country grapples with: George Floyd, Breonna...
Jun 11, 2020 · Across 10 decades, from Tulsa to today — against a backdrop of lynching and cross burning, more recently replaced by police chokeholds and vigilante gunshots, amid the subtler violence of systemic...