More than a month after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, protests in the Lehigh Valley continue to push for change across institutions: from police departments to school districts. Their message: we’re not going away. The Sunday afternoon protest is the third in a series of marches designed to symbolize the cycle of oppression and abuse that plague the Black community: from schools to prisons and eventually to their deaths. People of color are often in schools with limited resources and punished for misbehavior, which puts them to on a path in and out of prisons. The trajectory, the school to prison pipeline, puts a significantly disproportionate number of black Americans in jails.
↧
