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In 2013, the 鈥淏lack Lives Matter鈥� hashtag began as a call to action in response to the acquittal of the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin. Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi founded Black Lives Matter to 鈥渆xplicitly combat implicit bias and anti-Black racism and to protect and affirm the beauty and dignity of all Black lives.鈥� It has since become a cry for justice, a movement, a foundation, and a global network with international chapters whose mission is to eradicate White supremacy.

Patrisse Cullors

鈥淔or hundreds of years, Black communities have lived under state terror. Be it police violence or vigilante violence. When Black people uprise we must call it what it is: a human reaction to a deeply unstable and dysfunctional relationship to a country that has dehumanized us for centuries. I am less concerned with corporations and the ways they are impacted by Black pain, and I am more interested in the freedom of Black people. Our demand is no longer about the accountability of law enforcement. Law enforcement is unable to be accountable. We must defund law enforcement and reimagine a world that relies on an economy of care versus an economy of punishment.鈥� 鈥擨nstagram:          @osopepatrisse

Alicia Garza

鈥淏lack people are exhausted. I鈥檓 exhausted. Angry. Devastated. Scared.

鈥淭here is not one easy thing you can do right now to make you or anyone else feel better about the fact that this country allows [B]lack people to be hunted and killed like animals. ….

鈥淧rotest for too many is a performance for someone else鈥檚 benefit 鈥� rest assured people are not facing tear gas to perform for you. They are sick and tired of being stripped of humanity and no one doing anything. … Police should be held accountable for crimes they commit. So should this country … We gotta stop looking for easy answers and instead join the hard work. This is a marathon that no one wants to run … There are SO MANY organizations working hard to change this. Support them. Please and thank you.鈥�鈥擳witter: @aliciagarza

Opal Tometi

鈥淲e are living in a time with unprecedented movement. 

鈥淧eople are showing up 鈥� we鈥檙e seeing a multiracial, vibrant social movement that is not only happening in the United States, but is happening all across the globe. 

鈥淧eople are standing up. [They] believe Black Lives Matter. And they too want to build a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.  I鈥檓 … deeply heartened by all that I鈥檓 witnessing across the country, and around the globe. And I am hopeful that all of this momentum, all of this energy and all of this movement will lead to true transformation for our country, and for our [world]. We are long overdue, and so it鈥檚 really exciting to be in this time.鈥�鈥擨nstagram: @opalayo