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Monday 15 June 2020

'It was time to take charge': the Black youth leading the George Floyd protests

Members of Generation Z are organizing events and registering voters across the US as activism shapes their own lives

Shayla Avery texted a friend after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, nearly 2,000 miles away in Berkeley, California.

“We should do something,” wrote the 16-year-old high school student, frustrated that her teachers were not talking about it. So they started planning and a few days later, Avery, together with two school friends, had organised her first protest.

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