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    BLM Founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors on 5-Year Anniversary

    "This resistance towards Trump is a resistance towards the larger U.S. government that has continued to undermine communities most marginalized," Khan-Cullors says.
    by Chantal Da Silva Aug 10, 2018 5 minutes
    Co-founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Khan-Cullors attends the United State of Women Summit in Los Angeles on May 5.
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    Five years ago, Patrisse Khan-Cullors gave a name to a movement that would go on to spark a national conversation and demand a place on the global stage.

    Since then, "Black Lives Matter," a phrase Khan-Cullors, 34, first used as a hashtag in response to the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has mobilized countless people in the fight to end racial injustice and violence towards black communities in the United States and around the world.

    Khan-Cullors' path into activism came long before she founded the Black Lives Matter movement with fellow community organizers Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.

    Growing up in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, the activist felt the impact of poverty and policing firsthand and started her journey in community organizing. When she was 16, she came

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