Where the conversation lands will be a test of just how mainstream Black Lives Matter has become. “Seven years ago, people thought that Black Lives Matter was a radical idea,” Alicia Garza, the co-founder of the Movement for Black Lives, told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Black Lives Matter was intentionally a decentralized and diffuse movement that came together on the principle of the phrase itself. ADAD“I think a lot of the Black Lives Matter movement’s rhetoric about how pervasive racism was in America seemed far-fetched to many people,” Hansford said. Chelsea Fuller, spokeswoman for the Movement for Black Lives, said the movement’s core idea — that black lives are valuable — has benefited from its embrace in popular culture, particularly the “unapologetically black” aesthetic, which merged black history and civil rights causes with fashion and art.

Source: Washington Post June 09, 2020 20:40 UTC