Patrisse Cullors

Patrisse Cullors in an African American activist and artist based in Los Angeles, California. She is a cofounder of the Black Lives Matter movement, which campaigns against racial injustice and violence toward black people. She also campaigns for LGBTQ rights and identifies as a queer activist. In 2018 she published a memoir titled When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir; Asha Bandele was the coauthor. Cullors was again in the news in 2020 following several well-publicized acts of police brutality against African Americans.

Cullors was born in 1984 and grew up in the Van Nuys and Pacoima neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. She was one of nine children in a...