Whatever happened to Black Lives Matter?
The group is still doing important work, but after Donald Trump became president liberal America stopped paying attention
THE WAY Tef Poe sees it, nothing has improved in Ferguson, a mostly black suburb of St Louis, in the past six years. It was there that the rapper and activist co-founded Hands Up United, a campaign group, in 2014, after a policeman shot dead a local teenager, Michael Brown. Mr Poe became a voice of Black Lives Matter (BLM) as police clashed with protesters. He recalls a flurry of public interest, the “trendy movement”, and enthusiasm of hangers-on who saw activism “as the new Nike Swoosh”.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Attention-deficit disorder”
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