From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Kendall Seasmeyer, your host.

Ten years ago this July, Opel to Medi, Alicia Garza, and Patrice Cullors tweeted hashtag Black Lives Matter in the wake of Trayvon Martin's

death. The hashtag helped galvanize a movement calling out the racism that is determined to the

lives and deaths of black people in America since its founding. The Black Lives Matter movement

calls for the reimagination of institutions like policing,

housing, education, and health care, with the hope of redressing the harms done to historically

marginalized communities and building a more just country for all. As we look back on the last

10 years since the initial movement began,

and three years since its resurgence following the murder of George Floyd, we want to better

understand the history of Black Lives Matter and how it continues to shape American life.

We are joined today by Wesley Lowry, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who is widely regarded as the nation's leading reporter on the Black Lives Matter movement.

Wesley has been covering BLM since the year it began and has written two books on race in America.

His latest American whitelash, a changing nation and the cost of progress, is a timely

account of white Americans backlash against evolving discourses on race, identity, and equity.

We are excited to speak with him about Black Lives Matter's evolving legacy, the fervent backlash

against it, and where the movement stands today.

With that, Wesley, thank you so much for joining us.

Of course. Thanks for having me. Happy to be here.

So we have so much that we want to discuss with you, but I think that the best way to begin

a conversation about Black Lives Matter's legacy is to understand the

movement's goals. The 2014 killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York

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