Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors (born June 20, 1983 ) is an American artist and activist. She is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement .
Life
Cullors grew up in a poor family in Los Angeles , where she witnessed police violence as a child. At the age of 16, she came out as queer . After school and her time at a community college , she studied religion and philosophy at UCLA until 2012 . She is married to Janaya Khan and teaches a course she designed at Prescott College in Arizona.
After Trayvon Martin's death in 2013, she founded the grassroots movement Black Lives Matter together with Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza .
Publications
- #BlackLivesMatter. A story of survival. Together with asha bandele. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-05128-5 .
Web links
Commons : Patrisse Cullors - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrea Castillo: How LA activists vaulted Black Lives Matter to center stage. In: LA Times. June 21, 2020, accessed June 22, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Blair Imani: Modern Herstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History . Potter / Ten Speed / Harmony / Rodale, 2018, ISBN 978-0-399-58224-0 ( google.de [accessed June 22, 2020]).
- ↑ Rosanna Greenstreet: Q&A: Patrisse Khan-Cullors: 'My favorite word? Freedom ' . In: The Guardian . March 24, 2018, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 22, 2020]).
- ↑ Bio. In: Patrisse Cullors. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (American English).
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| SURNAME | Cullors, patrons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist and activist, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1983 |