Black Lives Matter Founders Grace Cover of Time 100 Women of The Year Issue

Today is International Women’s Day and to commemorate the occasion, TIME magazine has released a special double issue featuring 100 covers of women who defined a century, choosing one woman per year from 1920 through 2019.

The founders of the Black Lives Matter movement are on the list, which include political heavyweights, celebrity notables, dignitaries and trailblazers such as Michelle Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Aretha Franklin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chien-Shiung Wu, Beyoncé, Serena Williams, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Marsha P. Johnson, Toni Morrison, and Billie Holliday.

Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi represent the year 2013, for when the hasthtag #BlackLivesMatter went viral following the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the heinous killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

“While critics called Garza, Cullors and Tometi terrorists and threats to America, the activists continued urging the public to pay attention to the spate of fatal shootings of unarmed black men and women that followed Martin’s, shutting down highways, blocking bridges and staging die-in demonstrations,” staff writer Melissa Chan wrote in her essay celebrating the trio.

The cover art was illustrated by New York-based artist and writer Molly Crabapple, whose art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art.

The beautiful image is now available for sale.

Each of the 100 Women of the Year (see complete list below) is recognized with a Time magazine cover.

The legendary periodical commissioned 49 original portraits, with more than half created by women, including Mickalene Thomas, Shana Wilson, Bisa Butler on Wangari Maathai, and more.

Conceived with award-winning filmmaker Alma Har’el, the 100 Women of the Year were selected by the magazine’s editorsial staff, in collaboration with Har’el, and a committee of influential women across different fields, including journalist Soledad O’Brien, producer Lena Waithe, actress MJ Rodriguez, writer Elaine Welteroth, actress Zazie Beetz and the Time’s former editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs.

“The women profiled here enlarged their world and explored new ones, broke free of convention and constraint, welcomed into community the lost and left behind,” Gibbs wrote in her essay. “They were the different drummers, to whose beat a century marched without always even knowing it. So this special project is an act of discovery, and rediscovery, of the possibilities that come when we look and listen differently to the world these women made.”

THE 100 WOMEN OF THE YEAR:

1920 The Suffragists

1921 Emmy Noether

1922 Xiang Jingyu

1923 Bessie Smith

1924 Coco Chanel

1925 Margaret Sanger

1926 Aimee Semple McPherson

1927 Queen Soraya Tarzi1928 Anna May Wong1929 Virginia Woolf1930 Martha Graham1931 Maria Montessori1932 Babe Didrikson1933 Frances Perkins1934 Mary McLeod Bethune1935 Amelia Earhart1936 Wallis Simpson1937 Soong Mei-ling1938 Frida Kahlo1939 Billie Holiday1940 Dorothea Lange1941 Jane Fawcett and the Codebreakers1942 The Resisters1943 Virginia Hall1944 Recy Taylor1945 Chien-Shiung Wu1946 Eva Perón1947 Amrit Kaur1948 Eleanor Roosevelt1949 Simone de Beauvoir1950 Margaret Chase Smith1951 Lucille Ball1952 Queen Elizabeth II1953 Rosalind Franklin1954 Marilyn Monroe1955 The Bus Riders1956 Golda Meir1957 Irna Phillips1958 China Machado1959 Grace Hopper1960 The Mirabal Sisters1961 Rita Moreno1962 Jacqueline Kennedy1963 Rachel Carson1964 Barbara Gittings1965 Dolores Huerta1966 Stephanie Kwolek1967 Zenzile Miriam Makeba1968 Aretha Franklin1969 Marsha P. Johnson1970 Gloria Steinem1971 Angela Davis1972 Patsy Takemoto Mink1973 Jane Roe1974 Lindy Boggs1975 American Women1976 Indira Gandhi1977 Judith Heumann1978 Lesley Brown1979 Tu Youyou1980 Anna Walentynowicz1981 Nawal El Saadawi1982 Margaret Thatcher1983 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi1984 bell hooks1985 Wilma Mankiller1986 Corazon Aquino1987 Diana, Princess of Wales1988 Florence Griffith Joyner1989 Madonna1990 Aung San Suu Kyi1991 Anita Hill1992 Sinead O’Connor1993 Toni Morrison1994 Joycelyn Elders1995 Sadako Ogata1996 Ruth Bader Ginsburg1997 Ellen DeGeneres1998 J.K. Rowling1999 Madeleine Albright2000 Sandra Day O’Connor2001 Wangari Maathai2002 The Whistleblowers2003 Serena Williams2004 Oprah Winfrey2005 Melinda Gates2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf2007 Lilly Ledbetter2008 Michelle Obama2009 Malala Yousafzai2010 Nancy Pelosi2011 Tawakkol Karman2012 Pussy Riot2013 Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi2014 Beyoncé Knowles-Carter2015 Angela Merkel2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton2017 The Silence Breakers2018 Maria Ressa2019 Greta Thunberg