This weekend, national organizations and local organizers across the nation have planned events to mark 10 years of Black Lives Matter.
Thousands of demonstrators march during an NAACP rally and march demanding for justice in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, Saturday, March 31, 2012.
BLM activists and organizations plan to mark a decade of the movement with in-person and virtual events. Calls to action include a renewed push to defund police departments and reinvest in Black communities that have suffered disproportionately from police brutality, unequal treatment in criminal justice systems and mass incarceration.
"Ten years in, we’re getting a glimpse at what would happen if there were no Black Lives Matter," she said. "We’re not just going to fight when it’s popular, but we’re going to fight because we need to fight."In Los Angeles on Saturday, the "#BLMTurns10 People’s Justice Festival" will be held in Leimert Park, a historic neighborhood and cultural hub for Black Los Angelenos.
The BLM movement first emerged in 2013, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer of mixed white and Hispanic heritage who killed Martin a year earlier. Zimmerman claimed to authorities that he acted in self-defense when he shot Martin. He also acknowledged to an emergency dispatcher that he had followed and profiled the Black teen as a potential burglar in the Sanford, Florida, gated community.
But just three years into its existence, all but one of the founders remained involved in the movement's burgeoning organization. And in 2020, an unprecedented wave of donations to the movement following protests over George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police meant that BLM needed more infrastructure.
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