Although police terrorism plays a specific role on behalf of the state, it is not the totality of what state violence looks like or feels like in our communities.

I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.

I grew up in Marin County, which is a wealthy suburb of San Francisco.

Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.

There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.

All in all, Donald Trump appeals to people who want to be seen the way that Donald Trump sees them.

When we sit and think about what the world needs to looks like in order for black lives to actually matter, there is a debate: What is going to make our communities safe? How do we deal with harm? How do we solve problems that come up in our communities?

People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.

The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are in this country and throughout the world.

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.