Last night was a testament to the Black Lives Matter movement [View all]

[La Lioness Priyanka]

For all the hand wringing about them alienating allies etc., their methods to wake us up to a crisis in the black community and in America worked.

The presidential candidates had to answer a question about whether black lives matter or all lives matter and they all (with i think the exception of Webb), did a pretty good job

And a year ago, they would all have failed this question.

As a true ally to this movement, I was so grateful to them for blocking intersections, interrupting speeches, and doing what they had to do to raise our collective consciousness. I applaud them for this work.