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Black Lives Matter: How far has the movement come?

  • Written by Kwasi Konadu, Professor in Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University
imageMany grassroots Black Lives Matter activists are demanding more accountability and transparency from the movement's increasingly centralized and well-funded leadership.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Black Lives Matter has been called the largest civil movement in U.S. history. Since 2013, local BLM chapters have formed nationwide to...

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