THE UPRISING MARCHES ON

Why the Black Liberation Movement Needs to Be Leaderless

A revolution needs longevity more than it needs martyrs

Da'Shaun Harrison
GEN
Published in
7 min readAug 25, 2020

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Photo illustration. Sources: urbazon/Alejandra Fisichella/EyeEm/Martin Barraud/Getty Images

This piece is part of The Uprising Marches On, a package on what’s next for the movement for Black lives.

At the dawn of my tenure as a community organizer in Atlanta nearly seven years…

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Da'Shaun Harrison
GEN
Writer for

A Black queer abolitionist organizing, writing, teaching, studying, and loving my way to freedom.