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.@MerQueenGangsta "The murder of Trayvon Martin brought me into movement...There were more murders after that – Korryn Gaines, Maya Hall, Renisha McBride, Sandra Bland. Black girls, Black women, Black gender nonconforming girls as victims and survivors of violence at the hands

"...of the state. Wanting to transform that has kept me going...COVID 19 is putting our system in the spotlight. We don’t have a healthcare system, we have a capitalist system that provides a process of deciding who has access to healthcare and who does not.

"We don’t have a justice system, we have a capitalist system that provides a process for deciding who gets punished, and who does not. We don't have an education system, we have a capitalist system that provides a process for deciding who gets educated and who does not.

"There is a better future, and black freedom is possible…we are turning to artists, writers, poets, singers, musicians, to get us through, to actually survive this pandemic. Uplifting & including artists is not an auxiliary, and afterthought, but deep within lineage of what

we’ve always done." @courtlandcox : "We have expressed a humanity that no one else has, and has become the dominant culture -- hip hop is music, poetry. We don't have to look at others. "

.@JoyceALadner Ray Charles gave a concert while Miles College was on fire. Josephine Baker came from Paris to sit on the stage at the March on Washington. The backstory of the Movement is artists, music, Harry Belafonte bringing $90,000 in cash to fund Freedom Summer...