The founder of the Black Lives Matter of Columbus is moving to New York for graduate studies, but the activist organization is continuing.
Columbus native Brittany King, 29, launched the organization in July 2016, days after she organized a peaceful, public protest July 6, 2016, in downtown Columbus of the much-publicized police killings of several unarmed black men in other parts of the country. About 20 of her friends, mostly local residents in their 20s, joined her at Second and Washington streets in front of Columbus City Hall.
King said a leadership group consisting of Tosha Lafferty, Jessarae Emberton and Rick Scalf recently began guiding the organization as a team without using traditional organizational titles. Emberton has been a chapter leader since it began, and Scalf came aboard shortly afterward.
Chapter meetings, separate from the planned events, have averaged 20 to 25 people.
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