Since its inception, the Black Lives Matter movement has stirred passions every possible way. Arguably one of its greatest achievements is an unprecedented level of global attention to the injustices faced by people identifying as black. At its height, the movement rode a wave that has still not reached the shore of its resolution.

It is a wave powered primarily by the lived realities of millions of black-identifying people in in the United States and much of the Western world. Centuries of margi...