New York City (Reuters) – For 8 minutes and 46 seconds – the time it took George Floyd, an unarmed black male, to die at the hands of Minneapolis cops – cable television kids funnel Nickelodeon’s screen went black on Tuesday to noises of breathing in and breathing out, as white text flashed “I can’t breathe.”
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The Pokemon Business pledged $100,000 in assistance for Black Lives Matter. “Sesame Street” co-hosted a televised town hall meeting with CNN on Saturday early morning.
These are simply a few examples of how business that captivate or offer items for kids are changing their messages, as they try to handle this minute in American history and describe the complexities of bigotry and police cruelty to children through action and words.
” It’s one thing to attempt to protect the innocence of kids, however you shouldn’t preserve the lack of knowledge of kids in a nation that is multiracial that has this bad history,” CNN analyst