'We're not taking it anymore' -Jacob Blake Sr.
Earlier this week, protests broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after police officers shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, multiple times in front of his young children while his back was turned. Blake survived the shooting, but has been paralyzed, his lawyers told reporters this week.
Thousands of people gathered to march in Washington on Friday (August 28) on the anniversary of the march in 1963 where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr made his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
In his often-repeated speech, King envisioned a time his children would "one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Speakers referenced John Lewis, the late lawmaker also spoke at the 1963 march. They also referred to the importance of voting in November's election, and the links between activism for Black civil rights, disability rights and LGBT rights and against gun violence, among other causes.
