The organization of Black Lives Matter started out as a hashtag on the social media website called Facebook by a Black woman named Alicia Garza on July 13, 2013.

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A new slogan, a new movement and a new organization was born out of the hashtag Black Lives Matter.

two tragic events of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida and Mike Brown of Ferguson, Missouri kicked off Black Lives Matter as a new national movement established on the internet, but spilled into the streets.

However, for many frustrated Black youth community activists protesting racist police violence in the Black community out of Ferguson, they began to parlay the Black Lives Matter rally chant into a massive organization during this time.

After five years of its existence as a powerful force of social justice and Black liberation activism, the Black Lives Matter organization cease to be a major vehicle for Black people looking to challenge white supremacy in White America and in policing departments in the Black community.