'My brother cannot be a voice today': Loved ones of racial violence victims rally for change
The families of those affected by racial violence in the U.S. banded together on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday, the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, encouraging thousands of fellow marchers to carry forward the goals of their predecessors.
At the event, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton's activist group National Action Network and dubbed the march to "Get Your Knee Off Our Necks," the brothers, sisters and parents of men and women whose deaths and injuries have created national headlines spoke emotionally at times. They urged rally-goers not to have let their loved ones die in vain.
Thousands clustered at the site of the 1963 march wearing face masks that at once represented the cause that had brought them there and served as a reminder of the coronavirus pandemic that is disproportionately taking the lives of Black Americans.
At one point, Sharpton urged attendees to spread out more, despite the widespread prevalence of masks in the crowd.
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