Young people in the United States must capitalize on the momentum they have created through protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death before the attention moves away, former president Barack Obama said in a virtual town hall Wednesday.
Young people in the United States must capitalize on the momentum they have created through protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death before the attention moves away, former president Barack Obama said in a virtual town hall Wednesday.
Obama made the comments during a panel on police violence organized by the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance during a panel discussion on law enforcement, an initiative he launched to empower young minorities.
“I want to speak directly to the young men and women of colour in this country who … have witnessed too much violence and too much death,” Obama said in his