In 2013, Patrisse Cullors coined the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter when she used it to comment on her friend Alicia Garza's Facebook post in response to George Zimmerman's acquittal of the killing of Trayvon Martin. In the months and years that followed, well-meaning white Americans reacted to the hashtag with #AllLivesMatter, a saga Dr. Andre Johnson wrote about in "The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter" with co-author Amanda Nell Edgar. In this episode, Dr. Johnson discusses the two hashtags and what they say about the ongoing movement for Black lives.

Show Notes:
"The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter" by Dr. Andre Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar
"The Spirit Led Me," Chapter Three of "The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter"
"When protest becomes prayer" by Renée Darline Roden for AmericanMagazine.org
"Protest As Prayer: Paul Ricoeur and the Surplus of Political Meaning" by Timothy Harvie
"Protest as Prayer" by Hayley Lerner 
"Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church" by Barbara Holmes
"Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like: Radical Pneumatologies of Black Resistance" by Broderick Greer

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