--- title: Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi Is on the 2020 TIME 100 List description: Find out why Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi is one of the 100 most influential people of 2020. canonical: https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888228/black-lives-matter-founders/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-09-22T23:24:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:22:15.647Z og:title: Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020 og:description: Find out why Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi is on this year’s list og:url: https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888228/black-lives-matter-founders/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt030aef3513dd1025/698a1256656a3fa086bda82b/time-100-BLM-Alicia-Garza-Opal-Tometi-Patrisse-Cullors.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020 twitter:description: Find out why Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi is on this year’s list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt030aef3513dd1025/698a1256656a3fa086bda82b/time-100-BLM-Alicia-Garza-Opal-Tometi-Patrisse-Cullors.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 22, 2020 # Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi > Sponsored content. 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Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, are on the 2020 TIME100 list_ by Sybrina Fulton  Black Lives Matter founders: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi Black Lives Matter founders: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal TometiKayla Reefer for TIME I first heard about the [Black Lives Matter movement](https://time.com/5793789/black-lives-matter-founders-100-women-of-the-year/) the year [my son Trayvon was killed](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/trayvon-martins-mom-recover/story?id=71715637). It wasn’t on a national level yet. It was just something that people were saying in our circles. To know that [Patrisse Cullors](https://time.com/5171270/black-lives-matter-patrisse-cullors/) and [Alicia Garza](https://time.com/5867282/alicia-garza-black-lives-matter-biden/) and [Opal Tometi](https://time.com/4463742/opal-tometi-american-voices/) were out there [organizing this movement](https://time.com/5851855/systemic-racism-america/)—I felt supported and encouraged. There are only three of them, but they are everywhere. They are getting people to think: What if you had a 17-year-old son in a hoodie, and no weapon, just a candy and a drink, and now he’s dead on the ground? What if [your daughter was sleeping in her own bed and the police knocked down the door and killed her](https://time.com/5852654/breonna-taylor-police-killing-louisville/)? How would you feel? That is what “Black Lives Matter” asks. The moment that I was going through my own tragedy, the same things were happening with Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Jordan Davis, Dontre Hamilton and Oscar Grant. I’m in a circle with all of their families, and we continue to lift one another up. And it continues to happen—to George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and more. But this year feels different. Since the video came out of the [brutal killing of George Floyd](https://time.com/5847967/george-floyd-protests-trump/), people are actually witnessing what African Americans have been going through most of our lives. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Once you feel the pain in your chest, you can’t unfeel that pain. I’m glad to see there are more young people getting involved, more nationalities, more races—the protests are now a rainbow of people from all walks of life, in [different countries](https://time.com/5851879/racial-injustice-protests-europe/), joining and saying, “Black lives _do_ matter.” This is about human lives. We want [people to support u](https://time.com/5849721/how-to-help-black-lives-matter-protests/)s, stand with us, write a letter, speak to your local officials, join a rally. Do something. Make sure people are hearing your voice saying, “Black lives matter.” We can’t give up. Patrisse, Alicia and Opal won’t. _Fulton is founder of the_ [_Trayvon Martin Foundation_](https://www.trayvonmartinfoundation.org/) [_Buy a print of TIME’s Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi cover._](https://timecoverstore.com/featured/time-100-blm-women-photograph-by-kayla-reefer-for-time.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888228/black-lives-matter-founders/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888228/black-lives-matter-founders/"},"headline":"Black Lives Matter Founders: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020","datePublished":"2020-09-22T23:24:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:22:15.647Z","description":"Find out why Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi made the 2020 TIME 100 list.","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888228/black-lives-matter-founders/","keywords":["TIME 100","T100 2020","T100 2020 Icons"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt030aef3513dd1025/698a1256656a3fa086bda82b/time-100-BLM-Alicia-Garza-Opal-Tometi-Patrisse-Cullors.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt030aef3513dd1025/698a1256656a3fa086bda82b/time-100-BLM-Alicia-Garza-Opal-Tometi-Patrisse-Cullors.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888228/black-lives-matter-founders/","name":"Black Lives Matter Founders: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME100 | Black Lives Matter Co-Founders","description":"Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, are on the 2020 TIME100 list","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/xf1ouxz4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2020-09-23T01:36:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/xf1ouxz4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888228/black-lives-matter-founders/","duration":"PT1M15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888228/black-lives-matter-founders/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```