Black Lives Matter

Alicia Garza was born in Los Angeles,

United Sates in 1981.

In the last years she realized that it was

very difficult for black peoples to have
the same rights as a white people.

When Alicia Garza wrote “Black Lives Matter” in a Facebook post

nearly seven years ago, the activist from Oakland, California, never
imagined that those words would come to
define a global movement. The July 13,
2013, acquittal of George Zimmerman for
the killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed
Black teenager, sparked her post. A year
later, the shooting of Michael Brown,
another unarmed Black teen, by a white
police officer in Ferguson, Missouri,
galvanized Black Lives Matter to become a national organization.

Then they were fighting people to even say Black lives matter,
says Garza, who created the Black Lives Matter Global
Network with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. Now everybody’s
saying Black lives matter.