#blacklivesmatter was started with post on FaceBook by Alicia Garza to Patrisse Cullors in July 2013 as a response to the acquital of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin. Alicia used the phrase Black Live Matter and Patrisse responded with a hash tag of the phrase: #blacklivesmatter. By August 2014, when Michael Brown,… Continue reading Black Lives Matter
Month: May 2023
Mae Mallory
1927–2007 Mae Mallory was an activist of the Civil Rights Movement and a Black Power movement leader active in the 1950s and 1960s. She is best known as an advocate of school desegregation and of black armed self-defense Black History Perspective: Forgotten Intellectual TeenVogue — Mae Mallory Civil Rights Leader
Ayo Tometi
1984– Ayo Tometi, formerly known as Opal Tometi, is an American human rights activist, writer, strategist, and community organizer. She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM).She is the former Executive Director of the United States’ first national immigrant rights organization for people of African descent, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, working there… Continue reading Ayo Tometi