Black Lives Matter
noun
Note: Black Lives Matter was founded by Black community organizers Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi after George Zimmerman was acquitted of charges relating to his fatal shooting of Black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012; the movement expanded as people reacted to police killings of unarmed Black people in years following. The name Black Lives Matter functions as a declaration that Black people's lives have as much value as white people's lives, and as a call to end systems and practices that challenge this fact.
—abbreviation BLMExamples of Black Lives Matter in a Sentence
David Frum, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
Of that amount, Black founders saw their proportion of investment by value rise to a high of 1.13%, as diversity and inclusion efforts by firms soared in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.
—Sawdah Bhaimiya,april Roach, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
The indie drama serves as an allegory for current political and economic issues in the age of Black Lives Matter, food insecurity and Indigenous land rights.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2025
Less than a year earlier, Zuckerberg, who used to champion left-leaning causes, criticized Trump's rhetoric about the Black Lives Matter movement in June 2020, when the nation saw widespread protests over the killing of George Floyd in police custody.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Black Lives Matter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Black%20Lives%20Matter. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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