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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.\nIn recent weeks, American cities, suburbs, and small towns have seen an explosion of protests reacting to the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Even as many have commented on the racial diversity of the demonstrators, many of those organizing the marches are young African Americans activists.\nBut while black pastors have organized several marches in major cities like Chicago and Washington DC, they have not been at the forefront of a movement that arguably began back in Ferguson in 2014.\xa0\n\u201cWhile you may have had many black pastors and clergy who may have shown up at events, and you may have had a lot of people from black churches who were at these marches and protests, from 2014 to the present, by and large, this has not been a theological movement,\u201d said Watson Jones III, the senior pastor of Compassion Baptist Church in Chicago. \u201cIt hasn't been a movement that has started in the basements of churches, in prayer meetings, and altars that flooded out into the streets.\u201d\nDespite this, Watson believes that some of what is fueling many of the young black activist leaders ties back to this institution.\xa0\n\u201cMuch of how they do what they do are examples of things that early clergy and faithful Christians did in the \u201950s, \u201960s, and even \u201970s, but there is an absence of clergy leading this movement,\u201d he said.\nWatson joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to discuss why the black church\u2019s approach to activism has never\xa0been a monolith,\xa0how\xa0the community\u2019s preaching is speaking to current events, and\xa0the extent to which the black church is struggling to keep young people engaged.\xa0\nWhat is Quick to Listen? Read more \nRate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts \nFollow the podcast on Twitter \nFollow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen\nFollow our guest on Twitter: Watson Jones III\nMusic by Sweeps \nQuick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder \nThe transcript is edited by Bunmi Ishola\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices