This article examines Black leadership through the generations as a multifaceted struggle for Black lives led by ordinary Black people working together to end anti-Black violence and systemic racism for the affirmation of their humanity. At the center of this examination is the latest phase in a long struggle for Black lives, which has been branded as a Black Lives Matter movement. This new movement for social justice developed from past struggles and during the aftermath of the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin, 2014 Ferguson uprising, and 2020 George Floyd uprising. For the author, this new struggle is Black Americans most recent “walk of life” that stretches back to the movements for self-determination, anti-enslavement, and civil rights during the American Revolutionary period (1764–1789). Central to this new struggle is the blending of nonviolent direct action tactics with the use of digital technology and the inclusion of people who previously functioned on the margins of the civil rights agenda. This struggle is addressed, first through an exploration of where Black-led community organizations have been since Trayvon’s death, and second, by examining what is currently being done during the aftermath of the death of Breonna Taylor up to mid-September 2020.

本文考察了几代黑人的领导力，将其视为为争取黑人生命而进行的多方面斗争，由普通黑人共同努力，以结束反黑人暴力和系统种族主义，以确认其人性。此次考试的重点是为争取黑人生命而进行的长期斗争的最新阶段，这一阶段被称为“黑人生命物质”运动。这项新的社会正义运动是从过去的斗争以及2012年特雷冯·马丁谋杀案，2014年弗格森起义和2020年乔治·弗洛伊德起义之后产生的。对于作者来说，这种新的斗争是美国黑人最近的“生活”，可以追溯到美国独立战争时期（1764-1789年）的自决，反奴役和民权运动。这项新斗争的核心是将非暴力直接行动策略与数字技术的使用相结合，并将以前在民权议程边缘发挥作用的人们纳入其中。解决这一斗争的方法首先是探究特雷冯去世以来黑人领导的社区组织的位置，其次是研究布罗娜·泰勒去世后直至2020年9月中的当前情况。