Tag: Black Lives Matter

“The politics of our moment are dominated by a bully of miserable character, a President who has failed to contain a pandemic through sheer indifference, who has fabricated a reëlection campaign based on bigotry and the deliberate inflammation of division.”

There are steps the Black Lives Matter movement can take to carry on the remarkable energy it has built—and steps that could cause it to disappear.

“We won't let these authoritarian tactics stand.”

The poetry of a movement to change this country...

The central question is as old as the Republic itself: What is the limit of federal power?

My hope is that Black Lives Matter will join with the whites, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans, particularly those who have supported Bernie Sanders and other progressives, and continue to fight for justice for all members of society.

Decades of failed reforms plus research into racism have come to the same conclusion: Only radical change will deliver what we need.

"This shouldn't be a moment, this should be a movement."

With Black Lives Matter in the midst of an unprecedented moment, now is the perfect time to read “The Movement Action Plan” — a model for understanding the long arc of movements.

Beautiful Trouble examines the principles and theories guiding this growing insurrection in defense of Black lives.