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Black Lives Matter Leaders Win Sydney Peace Foundation Prize

HeadlineJun 08, 2017

And the Black Lives Matter movement has won the 2017 Sydney Peace Foundation prize. The award cites leaders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, who began organizing under the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter campaign in 2013, when white neighborhood watch vigilante George Zimmerman was acquitted in Florida of murdering unarmed African-American teenager Trayvon Martin. Past winners of the Sydney Peace Foundation prize include former Irish President Mary Robinson, South Africa’s Desmond Tutu and renowned activist Noam Chomsky.

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