Black Lives Matter founders to be awarded 2017 Sydney Peace Prize

The Miami Herald ^ | May 23, 2017 | Brian Murphy

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Black Lives Matter founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi will be awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in November. The prize, which has been awarded since 1998, is Australia’s international peace prize.

The three women began Black Lives Matter in 2013 with the social media hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager. The hashtag and its meaning became nationally known in 2014 in response to the death of Michael Brown, a black teenager who was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri....

[daler]

Yep.

Next week, Joey Buttafucco receives a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Children's Defense Fund.

[poconopundit]

Beautiful, blam. Nothing like seeing actual data to make a point! And you presented this in a powerful and non-biased way.

[blam]

Over $100 million was donated to BLM last year...$23 million of that came from George Soros.