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Kobe Bryant
It’s hard to believe. But yes, it’s been one year since the death of
Kobe Bryant. The pain of that is still very much there. A year later, my two greatest enduring and life affirming memories of Kobe Bryant are the same. And they have absolutely nothing to do with basketball. There’ll be plenty of hashing and rehashing of his legendary NBA exploits in the mountain of tributes and remembrances of him. The first is the mild but very pleasant surprise I had watching Bryant at a peace walk in July 2014. He walked and stood shoulder to shoulder with Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother. The occasion for the peace walk was the first anniversary of the grotesque acquittal of George Zimmerman of the murder of Martin.
happen, charles blow from the new york times said, sure, ultimately someone has got to get moving and who is going to push towards the ballot box in the political process? i think voting is important. voting is what gets you on those juries so you can make different decision when it comes to the michael browns or trayvon martins of the world. voting helps you get the type of leadership and police force that you want. voting does matter. we should all register to vote. remember, public accommodations didn t come from people coming from the ballot box. it didn t come from the ballot box. it came from people on the ground willing to risk their lives. those laws were co-signed and written in blood. that s the kind of work that we need to see now so when i see this movement, i m inspired by them and i want them to do voter registration and continue to be heard. the key here is a concrete goal. we can t just say we want change. they want to end capitalism. good luck to that. we want revi
macy s in manhattan performing a die-in. msnbc s trymaine lee is joining me now. what s expected to happen today? reporter: after days and days of mass protests and also those so-called die-ins we ve seen, we should expect more of the same. there s still such a will to get out there and make folks voices heard. i spoke with some protesters who flew in from ferguson saying they came to support demonstrators here the same way demonstrators supported them in ferguson. and reverend al sharpton will join benjamin crump, the attorney for trayvon martin s and michael brown s family, in joining with eric garner s mother and widow to place a wreath at the scene of the killing of where eric garner died. you have all these protests, some that may pop up spontane s spontaneously but also this family gathering ahead of next week s planned march rally in
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