![](https://cornellilj.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-06-at-1.45.17-PM-689x1024.png)
In 2015, Opal Ayo Tometi, on of the three Black women who co-founded Black Lives Matter (BLM), along with this author, co-authored an article on the Time magazine website titled, “Black Lives Matter is Not a Civil Rights Movement.” In that piece, we argued that the Black Lives Matter Movement has been described as the “New Civil Rights Movement” by the media and political pundits.