Lindsey A.’s Reviews > When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir > Status Update

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was co-founded by three Black organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi (also known as Ayọ Tometi) in 2013

“… despite it being apart of the historical record that it is always women who do work, even as men get the praise, it takes a long time for us to occur to most reporters in the mainstream. Living in patriarchy means that the default inclination is to center men and their voices, not women and their work.”

“… the first time there is coverage on Black Lives Matter in a way that is positive is on Melissa Harris-Perry’s Show.“

Public Accountability

“For us, law enforcement had nothing to do with protecting and serving, but controlling and containing the movement of children who had been labeled ‘super predators’ simply by virtue of who they were born to and where they were born, not because they were actually doing anything predatory”