BLM and the history of African American activism

Kevin K. Gaines is a Miller Center faculty senior fellow and the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia. He received his BA degree from Harvard University and his PhD degree from Brown University in the Department of American Civilization. He is author of Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), which was awarded the John Hope Franklin book prize of the American Studies Association.

Andra Gillespie is an associate professor of political science at Emory College of Arts and Sciences. courses and research cover African American Politics, particularly the politics of the post-Civil Rights generation of leadership, and political participation, in which she uses experimental methods of inquiry. She is the author of Race and the Obama Administration: Substance, Symbols and Hope and The New Black Politician:  Cory Booker, Newark and Post-Racial America.

Wesley Lowery is a correspondent for 60 Minutes+, the streaming version of CBS News' iconic broadcast 60 Minutes. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author, Lowery is one of the country's foremost journalists on issues of race, law enforcement, and social justice. Over the past decade, Lowery has extensively chronicled police shootings and the Black Lives Matter movement and interviewed leading newsmakers on these topics.