March on Washington

Tears streamed down Brooke Moreland’s face as she watched tens of thousands gather on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to decry systemic racism and demand racial justice in the wake of several police killings of Black Americans.  But for the Indianapolis mother of three, the fiery speeches delivered Friday at the commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington...

Rev. Al Sharpton told demonstrators at the March on Washington that the reason people still have to say “Black Lives Matter” is because Black people “get less healthcare like we don’t matter; we go to jail longer for the same crime like we don’t matter; we get poverty, unemployment, double the others, like we don’t matter.”

Megachurch Pastor Jamal Harrison Bryant speaks to demonstrators at the March on Washington about the tenacity of Black people: “Even when you render us paralyzed, we still know how to crawl. We’re going to crawl to the polls if we have to.”

Rep. Charles Booker, the youngest Black state lawmaker in Kentucky, speaks to demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington: “There’s no mountain we can’t move and there’s no root of racism we can’t pull up.”