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We fight racism with tools of our time, says founder of Black Lives Matter

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Opal Tometi recalls the movement’s origin and makes connections between acts by George Floyd and pandemic

Opal Tometi, one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter (black lives matter), returns to the origin of a movement that inspired this year the biggest anti-racism protests in half a century.

It was in 2013 and, “like everyone else,” she was following the trial of George Zimmerman, who ended up being acquitted for the murder of an African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin, in Florida.

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