In the current political climate, Black and progressive activists should focus on locally-based efforts, said author and veteran organizer Kevin Alexander Gray. âWe donât have anybody on the national scene thatâs saying anything coherent,â said Gray, speaking from his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. âTheyâre saying those sound bites to stay on TV, and smiling and skinninâ and grinninâ,â but âtheyâre disconnected from the struggle, disconnected from their history. People see them as frauds, and thatâs a good thing, as we organize at the local level.â
Tiyo Attallah Salah-Elâs exemplary life (without parole) is testament to the human spirit and the cause of abolition.
BLM National Leadership Focused on Money and Careers
âThe mixed Black figure, the mulattaâ is âa central focus of containing and managing Blackness and upholding whitenessâ in both Brazil and the United States, said Jasmine Mitchell,
âThe struggle has to be more than simply a declaration of our significance as human beings, as in the term âBlack Lives Matter,ââ said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Bac
Breya Johnson, co-chair of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) in Washington, DC, said her organization enjoys a âworking relationshipâ with the local Black Lives Matter chapter, but
