New march on Washington embraces history on fraught anniversary of King's speech | Malay Mail

Saturday, 29 Aug 2020 08:32 AM MYT

“You might have killed the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream,” civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton told yesterday's crowd. “In so many ways, we stand together today in the symbolic shadow of history, but we are making history together right now,” said Martin Luther King III, Martin Luther King Jr's son.

This week, protests broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after police officers shot another African-American man, Jacob Blake, multiple times in front of his children. Though Blake survived, lawyers said he has been paralysed. Bella Ridenoure of Arlington, Virginia said President Donald Trump should have acknowledged Black frustrations during his speech on Thursday that closed out the Republican National Convention.

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