A year after the Race Riot of 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people was born. Known as the NAACP, the organization began fighting to eliminate race-based discrimination that Black citizens faced.
In recent years, videos have been shown on social media and broadcast by news stations of Black men and women being shot by police. Often the officers’ actions are ruled justified by the courts, much to the dismay of many Black people who feel otherwise. This made way for the Black Lives Matter movement.
While the NAACP addresses many issues by advocating for changes in policy and law, BLM is a more in-your-face movement that brings those issues to the attention of the country through marches, protests and rallies.
On this issue of The Year 2042: an MLive podcast, hosts Dana Afana and Bob Johnson talk to Terry Pruitt, president of the Saginaw chapter of the NAACP and Angela Waters Austin, founder of One Love Global and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Lansing and Michigan chapters.
Listen as Pruitt and Waters Austin give their perspectives on racial equality, social justice and the fight against systemic racism.
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