As we enter Negro Week this week, we wanted to highlight some of the current generation of Black activism. Tahyira Savanna has been vocal about Criminal Justice reform since 2013 after she used her Facebook feed to share information regarding the Trayvon Martin murder case. Stand Your Ground was the law that allowed for then neighborhood watchmen, George Zimmerman, to get away with the murder of the 17 year old. Martin’s case sent shockwaves around the world when a copy of the 9-11 call hit the public. Martin’s screams for help can be heard in the background as neighbors chose to not get involved. The event was a spark. Black Americans started raising the volume on why they are routinely killed justly in a country that was built upon the enslavement of their African descendents. It begged the question, do Black lives matter in the United States.
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