--- title: Glamour Magazine Honors Black Lives Matter Founders description: The women behind the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Alicia Garza, Patrice Cullors, and Opal Tometi, were honored at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards. canonical: https://time.com/4571437/black-lives-matter-founders-glamour-awards/ author: Suyin Haynes article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-15T17:24:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:52.463Z og:title: Black Lives Matter Founders Are Honored by Glamour Magazine og:description: 'It is our duty to fight for our freedom' og:url: https://time.com/4571437/black-lives-matter-founders-glamour-awards/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt942973e8cff42b1c/6988ae8be20a879281a933a8/black-lives-matter-founders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Glamour Women Of The Year 2016 - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Black Lives Matter Founders Are Honored by Glamour Magazine twitter:description: 'It is our duty to fight for our freedom' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt942973e8cff42b1c/6988ae8be20a879281a933a8/black-lives-matter-founders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # #BlackLivesMatter Founders Are Honored by _Glamour_ Magazine > Sponsored content. 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(L-R) Black Lives Matter founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi attend Glamour Women Of The Year 2016 at NeueHouse Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, on Nov. 14, 2016. Frederick M. Brown—Getty Images by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Nov 15, 2016 5:24 PM UTC \[video src="https://dp8hsntg6do36.cloudfront.net/582ac804fd2e616478000002/f9a34eda-81f0-4d55-aeeb-ecb43c0cac1flow.mp4" /\] The women who founded the #BlackLivesMatter movement received a Women of the Year award yesterday, saying that “this is the time to build a movement in the millions” following Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election. Alicia Garza, Patrice Cullors and Opal Tometi were instrumental in the founding of the movement, and [in their own words](http://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/), have “created space for the celebration and humanization of Black lives.” Garza, Cullors and Tometi were honored for their work at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards on Monday by [Shonda Rhimes](http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/shonda-rhimes/?iid=sr-link4), who said “It is a helpless and terrifying feeling to walk out the door each morning and wonder if you or someone you love won’t make it home alive.” Paying tribute to the three activists, Rhimes said, “They took that hashtag from social media to the streets, they channelled our collective anger, frustration, grief and determination into action. These women have fundamentally altered the course of civil rights in America.” Receiving the award, Garza said, “This is not the time for us to sit back and wonder what we’re going to do, this is time to build a movement in the millions,” referring to the [Dakota pipeline protests](http://time.com/4548566/dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock-sioux/?iid=sr-link1) as well as the [#BlackLivesMatter movement](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2015-runner-up-black-lives-matter/?iid=sr-link1). Co-founder Tometi urged the audience that it was “incumbent on every single one of us to stand up and defend our diverse communities,” adding that “we deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.” Finishing the group’s acceptance speech, Patrice Cullors invited the audience to stand and join in the movement’s powerful chant: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” \[[_Glamour_](http://www.glamour.com/story/the-founders-of-blacklivesmatter-we-deserve-a-multiracial-democracy-that-works-for-all-of-us)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4571437/black-lives-matter-founders-glamour-awards/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4571437/black-lives-matter-founders-glamour-awards/"},"headline":"#BlackLivesMatter Founders Are Honored by Glamour Magazine","datePublished":"2016-11-15T17:24:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:52.463Z","description":"'It is our duty to fight for our freedom'","url":"https://time.com/4571437/black-lives-matter-founders-glamour-awards/","keywords":["motto","awards","shonda rhimes","#BlackLivesMatter"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt942973e8cff42b1c/6988ae8be20a879281a933a8/black-lives-matter-founders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Suyin Haynes","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt942973e8cff42b1c/6988ae8be20a879281a933a8/black-lives-matter-founders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Glamour Women Of The Year 2016 - Arrivals","caption":"Glamour Women Of The Year 2016 - Arrivals","creditText":"Frederick M. 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