3 years ago
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has won Sweden's Olof Palme human rights prize for 2020.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was honored for promoting "peaceful civil disobedience against police brutality and racial violence" across the globe. about 20 million people took part in (BLM) protests in the US alone, along with millions more around the world.
An online prize-giving ceremony is due to take place in Stockholm on Saturday.
The $100,000 (£73,000) annual prize commemorates Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister and prominent human rights advocate who was assassinated in Stockholm in 1986.
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement became an international slogan last year following several high-profile cases of police brutality against African-Americans.
Protests followed the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others spread across the US and around the world.
