Knowledge. Thank you. Plublack power. I need a video, yall. All right. We are now moving into a section that is very important, very important to me, very important to all of you here, which is the women. Lets give it up for the women. Women for justice. [applause] we had two powerful sisters that you will be hearing from. Arst, we are going to watch video. Immediately after the video, you will hear from the president of naacpeat d. C. Chapter d. C. Chapter. [video clip] r are women are the key ou women are the key. [indiscernible] justice for women. [applause] good morning. It is an honor to stand before you on this is sort day, commemorating this historic day, commemorating the anniversary of the million man march. 20 years ago, the honorable minister Louis Farrakhan, and nearly 2 million men, from across the country joined to deliver one powerful message. We are strong when we stand together. Today, i stand on the shoulders of many men and women, civil thats leaders, activists have
[applause] thank you, i am sorry. Will you help me celebrate and salute the family of our dear sister sandra bland . Make some noise as they come now. [applause] good afternoon. I greet you on behalf of the family of sandra bland. My name is sharon cooper, one of the older sisters of sandra bland and i stand in the gap for my mother. I am standing in the gap for my older sister, standing in the gap for my little sister, and standing in the gap for my baby sister. The biggest message i want to leave you with is the world has shown us that we have to control our own narrative. I want to thank you, say thank you to those of you who are here, especially the nation for acknowledging us. If i could ask you to do one thing, can you say her name . Sandra bland thank you. [applause] for our generation, she is considered the rosa parks of the hiphop movement, the one who who really kicked this off for this new movement to get us started. I needed to make a thunderous applause all over for the si