While not perfect, this isn't a bad discussion of the role of the "black church" in the BLM movement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...
The front lines of the fight for civil rights are no longer “manned” by the traditional leaders of the black community: well-dressed, respectable clergymen. From Emanuel AME Church’s historical fight against slavery in Charleston, S.C., to the Rev. Martin Luther King’s leadership in the 1960s, the church was the control center in black America’s struggle for civil rights for generations. Its authority infused the civil rights movement with traditional values — hierarchical leadership, respectability politics and the guiding principles of reconciliation and nonviolence.
Today’s movement has dismissed these criteria, operating without centralized leadership and accepting as many straight women and LGBTQ people on the front lines as straight men. Last winter, young activists rejected the leadership of the Rev. Al Sharpton when they stormed the stage of his “Justice for All” march in Washington and demanded an equal voice. Instead, the movement chants a phrase coined by three women, two of them queer: “Black lives matter.”
The article goes on to discuss religious communities that emphasize more of a liberation theology and their continued involvement in the movement. However it ignores the degree to which these young activists have also incorporated indigenous African spiritual observances as part of the protest, as well as a more specific embrace of black nonbelievers.
I have always bristled at the bit of historical revisionism involved in the traditional presentation of The Civil Rights Movement Brought to You By the Black Church, especially given that King himself complained that most black churches were not involved and were not supportive, and the degree to which it marginalizes secular forces such as SNCC and SDS and the Black Panthers who were also crucial. It's nice to see a discussion of diverse theological perspectives in the current movement