Future Black History Month: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors & Opal Tometi
Fuse is once again celebrating an extended Black History Month by celebrating a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Black History before our very eyes. Today we highlight Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi (left-to-right in photo above), who co-founded the Black Lives Matter network in the summer of 2013 in response to George Zimmerman's acquittal for the murder of Trayvon Martin.
Begun online as an intersectional, "Black-centered political will and movement building project" (per Cullors), #BlackLivesMatter took to the streets in August 2014, vigorously protesting the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. BLM identifies itself as "an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise."
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