From Picket-Signs to Picking Presidents: A Grandson of the Civil Rights Movement's Assessment of the Democratic Party and Its Quest for Equal Rights

When Black Lives Matter activists Marissa Johnson and Mara Williford stepped to the podium, abruptly took the microphone from Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, and began speaking at a social security protection rally in Seattle, during the heat of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary race on August 8, 2015, they were giving a voice to the voiceless victims of police brutality throughout the nation. More than interrupting the scheduled events of the rally that day...