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#BlackLivesMatter

#BlackLivesMatter was formed in 2013 by three organizers, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman. They aimed to build a movement that could organize local support around the country who could mobilize responses to police violence and killings of Black people, and lack of accountability for anti-Black racism in police forces. - Read more of the Herstory here on the official BLM page.

An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi (16 min)

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | TEDxBaltimore

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Pursuing Trayvon Martin by George Yancy; Janine Jones
ISBN: 9780739178836
Publication Date: 2012-11-01
On February 26, 2012, seventeen-year-old African American male Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a twenty-eight-year-old white Hispanic American male in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman killed Martin in a gated community. Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, featuring a new preface by editors George Yancy and Janine Jones written after the June 2013 trial, examines the societal conditions that fueled the shooting and its ramifications for race relations and violence in America.
Better, Not Bitter by Yusef Salaam
ISBN: 9781538705001
Publication Date: 2021-05-18
This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire us all to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of racial justice.

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#BlackLivesMatter

An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi (16 min)

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | TEDxBaltimore

Readings