Black Lives Matter sees a positive shift in support
Protesters painted "Black lives matter" around the graves of KKK leader and Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife Mary Ann in Health Sciences Park on the evening of June 24, 2020, and the early morning hours of June 25. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Black Lives Matter is a seven-year-old movement with an ambitious platform beyond the protests of police abuses with which it has been most associated. And in the past month of protests, activists and academics locally have seen reaction to it shift — a shift explored on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast and a recent Hooks Institute forum.
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