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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Black Lives Matter is obviously a poignant slogan and a powerful force for social transformation.

But it's also shorthand for a huge array of organizations nationwide,

mostly led by people that you've never heard of,

working the daily hard grind of ordinary organizing

that stitches together spectacular mass actions into a movement.

That's the subject of the new book, Making All Black

Lives Matter, reimagining freedom in the 21st century, written by my guest today, historian and

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