10th Anniversary of BLM -- 2023

 

 

Seven years ago, in July 2013, after George Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder in the killing of the 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a movement called Black Lives Matter was born. It began through a series of Facebook posts between two young queer, Black organizers: Alicia Garza, who was working for an anti-gentrification group in San Francisco, and Patrisse Cullors, who had been leading campaigns against mass incarceration for years in Los Angeles. Soon, in collaboration with Opal Tometi, who was leading a group in Brooklyn called Black Alliance for Just Immigration, the women began coordinating and participating in protests, sit-ins and demonstrations in Los Angeles, Brooklyn and Oakland.


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