ABSTRACT
Inspired by the courage and determination of Ferguson youth, young people across the nation exercised their stubborn agency and walked out of schools, marched on police stations and city halls, sat-in, died-in, blocked highways and bridges—becoming a fresh, searing force for equality, racial justice, and dignity. The activism of the Black Lives Matter movement—angry and loving—not only illustrates the brilliance and clarity of young people, but also flies in the face of popular currency that children and youth are passive and disengaged, or less competent and less thoughtful, less wise but more dangerous than adults. The urgency of “going further” is even more stark: catastrophic capitalist environmental collapse, endless war, racism resurgent and white supremacy entrenched, and an abiding crisis in the possibility of participatory democracy.
