“THE ENTIRE WORLD IS SAYING: BLACK LIVES MATTER”
Jul 03, 2020
2 minutes
Illustration by TAYLOR MCMANUS
Seven years have passed since Patrisse Cullors and fellow activists Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi launched the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the acquittal of the man who killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager shot while walking home in Miami Gardens, Florida. Cullors talked with Newsweek chief correspondent Chantal Da Silva about what’s changed since then, what hasn’t.
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