Johnetta Elzie
| Johnetta Elzie | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1989 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Other names | @Nettaaaaaaaa, Netta |
| Occupation | Activist, community organizer |
| Known for | Ferguson protests |
Johnetta "Netta" Elzie is an American civil rights activist.[1] She is one of the leaders in the activist group We The Protesters and co-edits the Ferguson protest newsletter This Is the Movement with fellow activist DeRay Mckesson.[2][3]
Civil rights activism
Elzie has been active in the Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland protests and she, along with Mckesson and data scientist Samuel Sinyangwe, created "Mapping Police Violence", which collected data on people killed by police during 2014.[4] The Los Angeles Times has named Elzie and Mckesson as two of the twenty-one people on their list of "The new civil rights leaders: Emerging voices in the 21st century" based on their activism work. The New York Times profiles Elzie and McKesson as leaders of the group that built "the nation's first 21st-century civil rights movement."[5]
Elzie uses social media outlets such as Twitter in her activism. In January 2015 The Atlantic named her one of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter Movement.[6] She became active in the Ferguson and Baltimore protests after hearing that Michael Brown had been shot and killed close to where she lived in St. Louis.[6]
Along with Samuel Sinyangwe, Elzie created the project Mapping Police Violence.[7]
She has been a field organizer for Amnesty International, and has volunteered with a girls' group called the Sophia Project in St. Louis.[8][9]
Awards
Elzie and McKesson have been awarded the Howard Zinn Freedom to Write Award from the New England branch of PEN in 2015 for their activism.[4]
They were also named as two of the 53 people on Fortune‘s 2015 list of “World’s Greatest Leaders” for their work with the Black Lives Matter Movement.[10]
See also
References
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- ↑ Day, Elizabeth. "#BlackLivesMatter: the birth of a new civil rights movement". http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/19/blacklivesmatter-birth-civil-rights-movement
- ↑ Johnetta Elzie. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johnetta-elzie/
- ↑ "MLK Day Clash At Harris-Stowe Leads To Conversation". St. Louis Public Radio. http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/mlk-day-clash-harris-stowe-leads-conversation
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External links
- Johnetta Elzie on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- We The Protesters
- This Is the Movement
- FERGUSON FORWARD 'When I close my eyes at night, I see people running from tear gas' at Ebony
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