Three black women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, coined Black Lives Matter, “as a call to action for black people after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder and the killer, George Zimmerman, was not held accountable for the crime he committed."

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