WBTV's Steve Crump marks milestone anniversary in his cancer battle wbtv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wbtv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This program originally aired June 3, 2020.
A “true child of the Civil Rights Movement,” Bakari Sellers said the cries of that era echoed in last summer s national unrest over the police killing of George Floyd.
While Floyd’s death was the catalyst for the protests, Sellers said they also reflect “systemic injustice and systemic racism that’s plagued this country for 400 years.”
He also views the coronavirus pandemic’s disproportionate impact on people of color from the perspective of someone raised in a South Carolina community where now there is no hospital, polluted water and air, and scarce access to food.