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Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi addresses the audience last Thursday at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Siegel Center.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi addresses the audience last Thursday at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Siegel Center.

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Black Lives Matter co-founder brings message to Richmond

Opal Tometi, a co-founder of Black Lives Matters, said she and other leaders of the movement consider slogans, marches and rallies for just treatment for African-Americans to be critical, but it’s more important “to move to systems that protect and affirm black life.”