Brian Bantum teaches theology at Seattle Pacific Univer­sity and is the author of Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity (Baylor University Press) and The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World (Fortress).
Black women's contributions continue to be rendered invisible. Brittney Cooper offers a critical intervention.
In the civil rights movement, language of political participation was central. BLM activists are making a more profound demand.