Black Lives Matter Builds on History of Black Organizing: Convo with Barbara Ransby + Charlene Carruthers

'In an interview with Kalyn Belsha, Historian Barbara Ransby and organizer Charlene Carruthers speak about the evolution of civil rights activism. Ransby, director of the UIC Social Justice Initiative and a professor of history, African-American studies and gender and women’s studies at the university, is the author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement . Carruthers is the national director of the Black Youth Project 100, a membership-based activist organization' -- The Chicago Reporter