Patrisse Cullors - British Vogue "The 20 Remarkable Activists On Vogue’s September Cover Are Ready To Change The World"

British Vogue | August 3, 2020

“On a Saturday in early June, I found myself blinking into the summer light as I emerged from London Underground’s Vauxhall station with two little girls beside me, witnessing something new. It was not the first major protest that month, not even the first Black Lives Matter protest, but as I stepped up on to that street, I felt an outpouring of raw, ancestral anger and outrage against racism on a scale I’ve never experienced before.

We had come to march because of the May killing of George Floyd; an act so callous and brazen his family described it as a ‘modern-day lynching’. The pain gathered after his death in Minnesota like an ocean swell, then rolled over the planet like a tsunami of Black rebellion, while injustices against Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Belly Mujinga, Shukri Abdi and so many more took centre stage. In London, we found ourselves surrounded by people of all races and ages, motorists beeping ‘Black. Lives. Matter’ in unison with the march and bus drivers throwing Black Power fists from behind their windscreens. As the veteran Black liberation activist Professor Angela Davis remarked about the protests in America, and the same was true of Britain, ‘We’ve never witnessed sustained demonstrations of this size that are so diverse.’”

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