markatia pba timeline- black lives matter by Amna Markatia https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2021-11-17 22:21:05 UTC 2021-12-14 21:17:00 UTC hello@padlet.com 2013 Alicia Garza created the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter along with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi after George Zimmerman shot an unarmed african american who was walking to their friends house, Trayvon Martin amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1900973210 2021-11-19 01:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1900973210 2014, protests during july of that year due to more police brutality towards african americans such as Eric Garner and Michael Brown who unfortunately died due to being choked and shot by cops, Patrisse Cullors organised a "Black Life Matters Ride" that made more people join the movement amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909183876 2021-11-23 19:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909183876 2015, More protests due to more police killings, there were also protests for black transgender women because 21 transgender people have been killed due to police brutality and 13 were black amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909188504 2021-11-23 19:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909188504 2016, early july there were over 100 protests due to victims Deborah Danner and Alton Sterling. Many basketball stars including Lebron James and Carmelo Anthony used there voice and said "enough is enough" amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909192009 2021-11-23 19:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909192009 2017, February (black history month) of that year BLM put an exhibition that showed many black artists and creators amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909194247 2021-11-23 19:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909194247 2018, this was the 5 year mark of the black lives matter movement and made a huge impact and spread a lot of awareness in the past 5 years. amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909199367 2021-11-23 19:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909199367 2019, february of that year 21 savage (rapper) got arrested by ICE 60 different music and entertainment "stars" wanted him to be released amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909203386 2021-11-23 19:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909203386 2020, this is when many started hearing more about BLM when george floyd died due to a police officer having his knee on his neck. Many more joined the movement after this happened amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909206824 2021-11-23 20:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909206824 2021, january the movement BLM was nominated for the nobel peace prize, on april of this year the killer of George Floyd, Derek Chauvin was found guilty with 3 charges, justice has been served for George but this isn't the end amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909210398 2021-11-23 20:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1909210398 2018 May 1st when #BlackLivesMatter has been used 30 million times on twitter in the past 5 years amnamarkatia056 https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1948056125 2021-12-14 21:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/amnamarkatia056/253768sfdei0kr1e/wish/1948056125