The Last Week.

Over the last decade, there have been few phrases that have become more loaded and perhaps

more important, socially, politically and culturally than Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter first coined by three African-American women in response to George Zimmerman's

acquittal.

Black Lives Matter began as a hashtag on Facebook in 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted

of murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Soon Black Lives Matter was more than a hashtag.

It was a declaration of what we had always known that our lives matter.

The Staten Island sidewalk where Eric Garner died, moments after the news broke.

There will be no indictment filed against Ferguson, Missouri police officer Dern Wilson

in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

It was a demand as much as a plea.

Black Lives Matter had become a movement.

Then came 2020 and the pandemic tore through America, disproportionately impacting the

Black community.

And in the midst of all that, three white vigilantes murdered a moderate-arborie.

Police shot and killed bring on a tailor in their own home.

And then when a Minneapolis officer squeezed the life out of George Floyd on camera and

for the world to see the Black Lives Matter movement exploded.

Tonight anger in the streets across America, massive crowds gathering again to protest

the death of George Floyd in cities from coast to coast.

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