Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder Black Lives Matter
Sarah Montague speaks to Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter - a political movement that has taken off around the world.
Sarah Montague speaks to Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the woman who first coined the slogan Black Lives Matter. She first used it as a hashtag on a friend's Facebook post back in 2013.
Since then, Black Lives Matter has taken off as a political movement around the world. She has now written about her own experience growing up in a poor black family in California and how she was convinced that, if racism and state violence against African Americans can be stopped, other problems in the black community - such as poverty, poor education and crime - would disappear too. Is she right? And does a movement founded on a hashtag have any part to play in finding the solution?
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