Black Lives Matter Seacoast and Other Chapters Merge

The state’s three Black Lives Matter chapters are merging to form a single statewide nonprofit: Black Lives Matter New Hampshire.

The consolidation, leaders say, will allow the organization to build its collective power, as well as boost organizing and outreach efforts throughout New Hampshire.

The chapters in Manchester, Nashua, and the Seacoast region have already been frequent collaborators and share much of the same mission.

‘The message is that we’re still here and we’re now bigger than before,’ said Tanisha Johnson, of Exeter, co-founder and board chair of Black Lives Matter Seacoast.