Interview with Opal Tometi (#BlackLivesMatter)
Channel: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Date: 12/06/2015

On June 4, 2015, Opal Tometi visited Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) in Berlin. Before meeting with activists and employees from the foundation she was interviewed be Ophélie Ivombo (RLS). In the interview she speaks about racist police violence in the U.S. and accomplishments of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Opal Tometi is a Black feminist writer, communications strategist and cultural organizer. She is a co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, the historic political project and leader-full network was launched in the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin in order to explicitly combat implicit bias and anti-black racism and to protect and affirm the beauty and dignity of all Black lives. Ms. Tometi is currently at the helm of the country’s leading Black organization for immigrant rights, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), a national organization that educates and advocates to further immigrant rights and racial justice together with African-American, Afro-Latino, African and Caribbean immigrant communities. 

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