Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi is experiencing a “full circle moment.”“I had actually just watched the film ‘Fruitvale Station,’ when I first heard that George Zimmerman was being acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin,” Tometi tells Variety, recalling the birth of the movement.
“Between watching the film and sitting in that moment with the reality that these types of tragedies are still happening, I was moved to action.”“I quite literally went home that night, cried my eyes out, and the next morning called Alicia Garza and created our Facebook page, bought our domain, and started building out our social media platforms in order for us to start mobilizing more people,” she says.
“So, for me, [that] film has been central to my own activism in that way.”Today, Tometi serves as a co-ambassador for the Social Justice Now Film Festival alongside “Fruitvale Station” star Michael B.
Jordan.
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