The execution of 18-year-old Mike Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked the Ferguson Uprising. His death catalyzed an expansion of the broader Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in support of Black victims of state-sanctioned violence. The movement, initiated by the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, is rooted in a political legacy that derives from Black people's historical resistance to structural racism and discrimination. Black Lives Matter emphasizes how interlocking systems of racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism differentiate the experiences that individual Black people navigate as targets of a police state. Black Lives Matter art and creative expression illuminate how the commercialization of popular culture perpetuates the silence and erasure of Black people's lived experiences.