Iconic Black Lives Matters Moments include: 5. Hillary uses her platform.
"In a surprise move late last year, current presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton became the most high-profile American politician to say "Black lives matter." In April, shortly after she announced her campaign for the presidency, Clinton said the nation needed to face "hard truths about race and justice," specifically police reform, the disproportionate practice of killing unarmed black people at the hands of police and mass incarceration."
"Without the mass incarceration that we currently practice, millions fewer people would be in poverty," she said, according to ThinkProgress. "You cannot talk about smart policing and reforming our justice system without talking about what's needed to improve economic opportunity, better educational chances for young people, more support to families so they can do the best jobs they are capable of doing to help support their own children."
On Edit: Notice the date of the Article. July 13, 2015.
http://mic.com/articles/122164/this-is-what-the-blacklivesmatter-founders-want-you-to-know-on-the-movements-anniversary
They provide statements by the 3 founders and then go on to list a handful of iconic moments (5). Not sure if the five iconic moments were provided by the BLM founders or the writer of the article.
According to Wikipedia: Mic was founded in 2011 by Chris Altchek and Jake Horowitz, two high school friends from New York.
I read that one is conservative, one is not. Since their advisors include people from the New York Times and the New Yorker, I'm assuming it's okay to cite to this website.
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