This 30-minute special program will bring viewers into the conversation of what it means to be Black in America and reflect on how things have changed in the two years since the death of George Floyd and subsequent social justice protests.
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At a dinner party in 1935, the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw was conversing with a young woman who said, “What a wonderful thing is youth!” Shaw sagely replied, “Yes and what a crime to waste it on children.”
The exchange was memorialized in the well-known but acerbic adage: “Youth is wasted on the young.”
With all due respect to Shaw, I beg to differ especially after meeting sisters Nene and Ekene Okolo, ages 20 and 17, who are using their talents to combat racial injustice. The pair are being honored at the National Conflict Resolution Center’s Peacemaker Awards on May 15.
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Students in San Diego who led protests and fueled much of the activism during the George Floyd movement welcomed Tuesday’s guilty verdicts, saying it was a rare moment of police accountability that validated their efforts.
Westview High School senior Diya Sharma, 18, has been active in the social justice movement since Floyd, a Black man, died last year after Derek Chauvin, a White Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. She was doing her homework when her stepfather called her downstairs to listen to the verdict.
“With (some) police officers, they have this sense of ‘I can get away with this,’ so I was extremely nervous,” she said.