Why Young Black Leaders Aren’t Only our Future, but Also our Now

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This country owes the innovation, wisdom, and passion of young Black leaders who go unnoticed and unnamed in mainstream history books. Anti-Blackness is so entrenched in this country’s systems. We know there will be hurdles, but we also know that Black power and innovation are strong enough to create new liberating systems.

Young people have always been at the forefront of movements. Their organizing skills unmatched, and insight wise, yet fresh. Young people have solutions to the problems we’ve been trying to solve if we’d just listen to them.

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