Patrisse Cullors - The Washington Post "BET Awards 2020: Five things to know, from Michelle Obama’s Beyoncé tribute to the ‘Fight the Power’ remix"
The Washington Post | June 29, 2020
“In the middle of the 2020 BET Awards on Sunday night, celebrities from Jamie Foxx and Viola Davis to Kendrick Lamar and Tracee Ellis Ross appeared on video screens together to read a long list of names: George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Trayvon Martin. Elijah McClain. Sandra Bland. Stephon Clark. Rayshard Brooks. Medgar Evers. Michael Brown. Ahmaud Arbery. Tamir Rice. Emmett Till. Malcolm X. Martin Luther King Jr. And many more.
‘Unfortunately, these names represent only a fraction of the black lives we’ve lost to the over 400-year-long pandemic called racism,’ said Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. ‘We can’t allow this cycle of pain and oppression to continue any longer. It ends now. We will not lose.’
During the three-hour show (prerecorded remotely because of the novel coronavirus pandemic), nearly every artist addressed the Black Lives Matter movement and police brutality amid the national reckoning over racial injustice. Host Amanda Seales started and ended the telecast by talking about Taylor, who was shot and killed by Louisville police in her apartment: ‘Breonna Taylor’s killers are still walking free,’ she said to close the show.”
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