Black Lives Matter
noun
Note: Black Lives Matter was founded by Black community organizers Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi after George Zimmerman was acquitted of charges relating to his fatal shooting of Black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012; the movement expanded as people reacted to police killings of unarmed Black people in years following. The name Black Lives Matter functions as a declaration that Black people's lives have as much value as white people's lives, and as a call to end systems and practices that challenge this fact.
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Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
Other elements add more layers, including Cross getting ensnared in a Black Lives Matter protest and having Alex face a real freak of a nemesis, portrayed with depraved confidence by Ryan Eggold.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
Social-justice movements such as the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter owe some of the success of their early organizing efforts to the platform.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
From Cultural Wins to Moderation The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the implicit support for it among Democratic institutions was among the defining features of America's culture wars in the Trump era.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Black Lives Matter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Black%20Lives%20Matter. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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