User:Rhizzus/Hashtag activism

Article Draft
For the sake of the Week 4 exercises, I currently have no plans to edit this section of the article, but I can see where more can be added to provide more context.


 * From the existing Hashtag Activism, sub-section Race
 * The Black Lives Matter movement calls for an end to police brutality and the killings of African-Americans in the U.S. The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag was first started by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi as a response to the trial and later acquittal of George Zimmerman who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The hashtag saw a revival in 2014, after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and after a grand jury did not indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner. During the summer of 2020, the hashtag saw another resurrgence due to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police.

My actual editing plans:

Under the Notable Examples heading of the Hashtag Activism article, I plan to add a new sub-section tittled Black Women's Rights. Since, this would be a new section, I can't copy any section from the existing article to add here, so instead I'll start to draft a few sentences of what I would add for my section.

#SayHerName
Main article: SayHerName


 * 1) SayHerName originated in 2015 by the African American Policy Forum spearheaded by Kimberle Crenshaw. The purpose of #SayHerName was to bring media and public attention to the abuse and murder of Black women (both cis- and transgrender) at the hands of the police. The alleged suicide of Sandra Bland after being taken into police custody made the hashtag viral and allowed for the exposure, sharing, and investigation into the stories of other Black women who died as a result of police violence. #SayHerName was also associated with the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Aura Rosser, Tanisha Anderson, and many others.