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Black Lives Matter Profile: Alicia Garza

“As leftists, as people who care about the future of humanity, our core task is to build this movement, but bigger than that our task is to build a left,” Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza said at the 2015 Left Forum. Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors founded the Black Lives Matter movement […]

Black Lives Matter Profile: Alicia Garza

Black Lives Matter Profile: Opal Tometi

Last week, Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi declared to the United Nations, “ … I would argue that the international community faces 3 core challenges to advancing human rights. Those are: global capitalism; [sic] white supremacy and the suppression of democracy.” Opal Tometi started the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 with Alicia Garza and […]

Black Lives Matter Profile: Opal Tometi

Black Lives Matter Profile: DeRay McKesson

DeRay McKesson, organizer, activist and educator has received attention unheard of for an activist. Having advocated for issues relating to children, youth and families for 15 years, Mckesson rose to fame after leaving his job to move to Missouri and protest after the death of Mike Brown. Ferguson was the first city Mckesson had physically […]

Black Lives Matter Profile: DeRay McKesson

Black Lives Matter Profile: Patrisse Cullors

Patrisse Cullors, one of the three founders of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement, is an “artist, organizer and freedom fighter” from Los Angeles, CA.  After the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, Cullors co-founded the movement with a hashtag. According to the BLM website, “Black Lives Matter is an ideological […]

Black Lives Matter Profile: Patrisse Cullors